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. 2024 Dec 18;17(12):e70058. doi: 10.1111/eva.70058

TABLE 1.

Summary of eastern Canada samples genotyped with ddRADseq and lcWGS datasets. N and years indicate sample size and sampling period, respectively. N overlap indicates the number of samples common to both datasets.

Regions a ddRADseq lcWGS N overlap
N Years N Years
St. Lawrence Estuary 22 2000–2019 19 2009–2019 8
Cumberland Sound 27 2002–2007 34 1982–2016 13
Frobisher Bay 16 1991–1992 8 1993–2002 0
Ungava Bay 89 1994–2018 3 2019 0
North Hudson Strait 27 1989–2000 18 1989–2009 0
South Hudson Strait 112 1994–2015 43 1994–2020 5
Northeast Hudson Bay 32 1998–2018 1 2003 1
Southeast Hudson Bay Arc 124 1990–2018 29 1990–2020 5
Belcher Islands 43 2002–2005 88 1993–2021 6
James Bay 24 2002–2009 14 2002–2010 13
Southwest Hudson Bay 14 2002–2005 1 1992–2015 1
Northwest Hudson Bay 68 1992–2015 41 1993–2009 13
North Hudson Bay 39 1993–2006 31 1996–2012 7
Resolute Bay 9 1996–2012 0
Total b 637 1989–2019 339 1989–2021 72
a

One beluga whale was not associated to any region and is not included in the table. The carcass was collected in the northeastern Gulf of St. Lawrence (see Figure 1).

b

The totals with the removed Gulf of St. Lawrence beluga whale are 638, 340, and 73 for ddRADseq, lcWGS, and shared individuals, respectively.