Acknowledgements
This study would not be possible without the support and collaboration of the Inuvialuit Game Council, the Gjoa Haven and Coral Harbour Hunters and Trappers Association, the Canadian Rangers, and all the Northwest Territories and Nunavut communities that contributed to the project. N. Campbell, L. Waits, and R. Malenfant provided valuable advice on study design and interpretation. Thank you to everyone who helped with lab work and have provided unwavering support for the project: M. Navarrete Bedolla, D. Lougheed, S. Vanderluit, H. Wainwright, E. Landon, S. Edie, S. Maracle, A. Siew, T. Frappier-Brinton, M. Harwood, and the rest of the BEARWATCH team and Lougheed Lab. This work was funded by the Government of Canada through Genome Canada and the Ontario Genomics Institute (OGI-123), and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Computational resources were provided by Compute Canada through the Resources for Research Groups program. K. Hayward’s Master’s thesis is funded by an NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship.
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