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Two behavioural traits promote fine-scale species segregation and moderate hybridisation in a recovering sympatric fur seal population BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2010 (Ref: 14195)
Authors:
Lancaster M.L.Goldsworthy S.D.Sunnucks P.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Fur seals at Macquarie Island: post-sealing colonisation, trends in abundance and hybridisation of three species Polar Biology, 2009 (Ref: 13837)
Authors:
Goldsworthy S.D.McKenzie J.Page B.Lancaster M.L.Shaughnessy P.D.Wynen L.P.Robinson S.A.Peters K.J.Baylis A.M.M.McIntosh R.R.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Commercial sealers exterminated the original … fur seal population at Macquarie Island in the early 1800s. The Wrst breeding record since the sealing era was not … reported until March 1955. Three species of fur seal now … occur at Macquarie Island, the Antarctic (Arctocephalus … gazella)…

Lower reproductive success in hybrid fur seal males indicates fitness costs to hybridization Molecular Ecology, 2007 (Ref: 13401)
Authors:
Lancaster M.L.Bradshaw C.J.A.Goldsworthy S.D.Sunnucks P.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Hybridization among organisms can potentially contribute to the processes of evolution, but this depends on the fitness of hybrids relative to parental species. A small, recently … formed population of fur seals on subantarctic Macquarie Island contains a high proportion … of hybrids (17–30%)…

Multiple mating strategies explain unexpected genetic mixing of New Zealand fur seals with two congenerics in a recently recolonized population Molecular Ecology, 2007 (Ref: 13400)
Authors:
Lancaster M.L.Goldsworthy S.D.Sunnucks P.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Human impacts on natural systems can cause local population extinctions, which may promote … redistribution of taxa and secondary contact between divergent lineages. In mammalian … populations that have mating systems shaped by polygyny and sexual selection…

Ménage à trois on Macquarie Island: hybridization among three species of fur seal (Arctocephalus spp.) following historical population extinction Molecular Ecology, 2006 (Ref: 13399)
Authors:
Lancaster M.L.Gemmell N.J.Negro S.Goldsworthy S.Sunnucks P.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Human-induced changes to natural systems can cause major disturbances to fundamental … ecological and population processes and result in local extinctions and secondary contacts … between formerly isolated species. Extensive fur seal harvesting during the nineteenth … century on Macquarie Island…

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