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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