Kathryn Robertson

Evidence of resident coastal population(s) of false killer whales (Pseudorca crassidens) in northern Australian waters

C Palmer, KK Martien, H Raudino, KM Robertson, A Withers, E Withers, R Risk, D Cooper, E D’Cruz, E Jungine, D Barrow, N Cuff, A Lane, D Keynes, K Waples, A Malpartida, S Banks

Journal article  |  2023  |  Frontiers in Marine Science

To help evaluate the distribution, residency, population size and structuring (and hence conservation status) of the poorly known ..

Killer whale predation on a pygmy sperm whale in an oceanic habitat

PA Olson, BL Hancock-Hanser, JLK McCullough, M Dahlheim, A Schulman-Janiger, N Black, K Robertson, undefined Adam

Journal article  |  2023  |  Marine Mammal Science

Sexually dimorphic characteristics of short-finned pilot whales, false killer whales, pygmy killer whales, and melon-headed whales assessed using fin and body morphometrics from photographs taken at sea

SN Yahn, RW Baird, SD Mahaffy, KM Robertson

Journal article  |  2023  |  Marine Mammal Science

Adults of many free-ranging delphinid species cannot be reliably sexed at sea. Sexually mature, known-sex adult short-finned pilot..

The critically endangered vaquita is not doomed to extinction by inbreeding depression.

Jacqueline A Robinson, Christopher C Kyriazis, Sergio F Nigenda-Morales, Annabel C Beichman, Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho, Kelly M Robertson, Michael C Fontaine, Robert K Wayne, Kirk E Lohmueller, Barbara L Taylor, Phillip A Morin

Journal article  |  2022  |  Science

In cases of severe wildlife population decline, a key question is whether recovery efforts will be impeded by genetic factors, suc..

Population structure of North Pacific gray whales in light of trans-Pacific movements

AR Lang, DW Weller, AM Burdin, K Robertson, O Sychenko, J Urbán, S Martínez-Aguilar, VL Pease, RG LeDuc, DI Litovka, VN Burkanov, RL Brownell

Journal article  |  2022  |  Marine Mammal Science

Recent findings that some gray whales that feed off Sakhalin Island (SI), Russia, in the western North Pacific (WNP) overwinter in..

Fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) bones from a 5850 year old shell midden on San Miguel Island, California, USA

JM Erlandson, RL DeLong, KM Robertson

Journal article  |  2022  |  Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology

Large cetaceans were heavily impacted by commercial whaling, so relatively little is known about their biogeography prior to histo..

Runs of homozygosity in killer whale genomes provide a global record of demographic histories.

Andrew D Foote, Rebecca Hooper, Alana Alexander, Robin W Baird, Charles Scott Baker, Lisa Ballance, Jay Barlow, Andrew Brownlow, Tim Collins, Rochelle Constantine, Luciano Dalla Rosa, Nicholas J Davison, John W Durban, Ruth Esteban, Laurent Excoffier, Sarah L Fordyce Martin, Karin A Forney, Tim Gerrodette, M Thomas P Gilbert, Christophe Guinet, et al.

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  Mol Ecol

Runs of homozygosity (ROH) occur when offspring inherit haplotypes that are identical by descent from each parent. Length distribu..

Population structure in a continuously distributed coastal marine species, the harbor porpoise, based on microhaplotypes derived from poor-quality samples.

Phillip A Morin, Brenna R Forester, Karin A Forney, Carla A Crossman, Brittany L Hancock-Hanser, Kelly M Robertson, Lance G Barrett-Lennard, Robin W Baird, John Calambokidis, Pat Gearin, M Bradley Hanson, Cassie Schumacher, Timothy Harkins, Michael C Fontaine, Barbara L Taylor, Kim M Parsons

Journal article  |  2021  |  Mol Ecol

Harbor porpoise in the North Pacific are found in coastal waters from southern California to Japan, but population structure is po..

Re-examination of population structure in Arctic ringed seals using DArTseq genotyping

AR Lang, P Boveng, L Quakenbush, K Robertson, M Lauf, KD Rode, H Ziel, BL Taylor

Journal article  |  2021  |  Endangered Species Research

Although Arctic ringed seals Phoca hispida hispida are currently abundant and broadly distributed, their numbers are projected to ..

Mitochondrial genomics reveals the evolutionary history of the porpoises (Phocoenidae) across the speciation continuum.

Yacine Ben Chehida, Julie Thumloup, Cassie Schumacher, Timothy Harkins, Alex Aguilar, Asunción Borrell, Marisa Ferreira, Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho, Kelly M Robertson, Barbara L Taylor, Gísli A Víkingsson, Arthur Weyna, Jonathan Romiguier, Phillip A Morin, Michael C Fontaine

Journal article  |  2020  |  Sci Rep

Historical variation in food resources is expected to be a major driver of cetacean evolution, especially for the smallest species..