Evolutionary history of a Scottish harbour seal population

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The authors wish to thank Shaneve Tripp (NYU School of Law) and Wendy West (DAFF) for their english corrections. Ludovic Hoarau (IFREMER) for his help on ArcGis. Katia Feve (INRAE) for her help with the DNA extraction protocol. DNA samples were extracted at INRAE and genotyped at the Toulouse Genopole Platform (http://www.genotoul.fr/). Anonymous reviewers provided many helpful comments on an earlier version of the manuscript. Funding This work was supported by INRAE (FRANCE), Genotoul platform (FRANCE), and University of Aberdeen. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Data Availability The following information was supplied regarding data availability: Data is available at INRAE: Nikolic, Natacha; Thompson, Paul; De Bruyn, Mark; Mace, Matthias; Chevalet, Claude, 2020, ‘‘Microsatellite data from: Evolutionary history of a Scottish harbour seal population’’, https://doi.org/10.15454/AOZ7JI, Portail Data INRAE, V2.