Limited gene flow among brown bear populations in far Northern Europe? Genetic analysis of the east-west border population in the Pasvik Valley

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 3474-3488

  Schregel, Julia ^a,b   Kopatz, Alexander ^a,c   Hagen, Snorre B ^a   Broseth, Henrik ^d   Smith, Martin E ^a   Wikan, Steinar ^a   Wartiainen, Ingvild ^a   Aspholm, Paul E ^a   Aspi, Jouni ^c   Swenson, Jon E ^b,d   Makarova, Olga ^e   Polikarpova, Natalia ^e   Schneider, Michael ^f   Knappskog, Per M ^a   Ruokonen, Minna ^c   Kojola, Ilpo ^g   Tirronen, Konstantin F ^h   Danilov, Pjotr I ^h   Eiken, Hans Geir ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^d NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^e Pasvik Strict Nature Reserve   (Russian Federation)

^f SWEDISH ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (Sweden)

^g FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^h INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

capture mark recapture; DNA; effective population size; microsatellites; migration rates; N e N c ratio; noninvasive genetic sampling; population structure

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEAR; FINLAND; GENE FLOW; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; INBREEDING; NORWAY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GENETICS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SWEDEN;

ANIMALS; FINLAND; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; INBREEDING; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; NORWAY; POPULATION DENSITY; RUSSIA; SWEDEN; URSIDAE;

URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 84863715675     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05631.x     Document Type: Article

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