{"id":325,"date":"2020-11-22T18:00:41","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T18:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=325"},"modified":"2021-06-10T11:46:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T10:46:15","slug":"8-orca-population-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=325","title":{"rendered":"8- Orca Population History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spotify Embed: 8- Orca Population History\" width=\"100%\" height=\"232\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/4DeYhADD0LkjVevc3WTS91\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>Killer whales are an icon of the world&#8217;s oceans. However, genetic studies show that they haven&#8217;t always been doing so well- especially during the last Ice Age. What&#8217;s the story? And what relevance does the millennia-old plight of the orca have today? On the podcast today, we&#8217;re going to use a genetic study from 2014 to explore just that.<\/p>\n<p>Sources for this episode: 1) Moura, A. E. et al (2014), Killer Whale Nuclear Genome and mtDNA Reveal Widespread Population Bottleneck during the Last Glacial Maximum. Molecular Biology and Evolution 31(5): 1121- 1131. 2) General dates for some of the geological epochs discussed are widely available and can be found at sources such as Wikipedia.<\/p>\n<p>A small housekeeping note: the lamellipodium episode is taking longer than expected and so has had to be pushed back a bit until November 25th (episode 10).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Killer whales are an icon of the world&#8217;s oceans. However, genetic studies show that they haven&#8217;t always been doing so well- especially during the last Ice Age. What&#8217;s the story? And what relevance does the millennia-old plight of the orca have today? On the podcast today, we&#8217;re going to use a genetic study from 2014 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=325\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;8- Orca Population History&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":563,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions\/563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}