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Until translocation efforts in the 1960s, sea otters (Enhydra lutris) were absent from Southeast Alaska due to extirpation by the fur trade in the 18th and 19th centuries. About 400 sea otters were reintroduced to six Southeast Alaska locations, including two sites near Prince o…

Sea otters (Enhydra lutris) were hunted to the verge of extinction by fur traders in the 18th–19th centuries and provide a remarkable example of survival after an extreme population bottleneck. In this dissertation, I generated and analyzed sea otter genomic data to detect signa…