Dear MARMAM Colleagues, My co-authors and I are pleased to announce the publication of the following article in the Journal of Mitochondrial DNA Part A :Arsalan Emami-Khoyi, Adrian M. Paterson, David A. Hartley, Laura J. Boren, Robert H. Cruickshank, James G. Ross, Elaine C. Murphy & Terry-Ann Else*Mitogenomics data reveal effective population size, historical bottlenecks, and the effects of hunting on New Zealand fur seals (Arctocephalus forsteri)**Abstract :* The New Zealand fur seal (Arctocephalus forsteri) passed through a population bottleneck due to com- mercial sealing during the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries. To facilitate future management options, we reconstructed the demographic history of New Zealand fur seals in a Bayesian framework using maternally inherited, mitochondrial DNA sequences. Mitogenomic data suggested two separate clades (most recent common ancestor 5000 years ago) of New Zealand fur seals that survived large-scale human harvest. Mitochondrial haplotype diversity was high, with 45 singletons identified from 46 indi- viduals although mean nucleotide diversity was low (0.012 ± 0.0061). Variation was not constrained geo- graphically. Analyses of mitogenomes support the hypothesis for a population bottleneck approximately 35 generations ago, which coincides with the peak of commercial sealing. Mitogenomic data are consistent with a pre-human effective population size of approximately 30,000 that first declined to around 10,000 (due to the impact of Polynesian colonization, particularly in the first 100 years of their arrival into New Zealand), and then to 100–200 breeding individuals during peak of commercial sealing.The full text is available at the following address or upon direct request to the first author (arsalan@pobox.com)* : * * http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24701394.2017.1325478* Regards Arsalan Emami-Khoyi Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Wildlife Genomics University of Johannesburg_Center for Ecological Genomics and Wildlife ConservationAuckland Park 2006 South Africa Email : Arsalane@uj.ac.za Phone :+27 (0)11 559 3373 Cellphone:+27 79 88 14 628 Website :https://sites.google.com/site/drpeterteske/postdocs