ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Funding was provided through an NSERC Collaborative Research &
Development (CRD) grant, NSERC grant RGPIN-2015-04477, Manitoba Hydro,
Saskatchewan Power, and Weyerhaeuser Inc. We are thankful to Bridget
Redquest and Austin Thompson for extracting DNA, and The Centre for
Applied Genomics (TCAG) at the Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto,
Ontario) for library preparation and sequencing, to the facilities of
the Shared Hierarchical Academic Research Computing Network (SHARCNET:
www.sharcnet.ca) and Compute Canada/ Calcul Canada gme-665-ab.Compute
Canada (RRG gme-665-ab), and Amazon Cloud Computing for high-performance
computing services. We are also highly recognizant of the contribution
of those who provided the tissue samples including Dr.
Helen Schwantje, Government of British Columbia; Kent Whaley, Dale
Cross, Vicki Trim and Daryll Hedman, Government of Manitoba, Government
of Ontario, Guy Savard, Environment and Climate Change Canada; Christine
Cuyler, Government of Greenland; Dr. Judith Eger and Lim Burton, The
Royal Ontario Museum, Dr. Jean Polfus, University of Manitoba and the
Sahtú Renewable Resources Board; and Dr. Mary Gamberg, Gamberg
Consulting.