Genomic Evidence for Island Population Conversion Resolves Conflicting Theories of Polar Bear Evolution

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Cahill, James A ^a   Green, Richard E ^b   Fulton, Tara L ^a   Stiller, Mathias ^a   Jay, Flora ^c   Ovsyanikov, Nikita ^d   Salamzade, Rauf ^b   St John, John ^b   Stirling, Ian ^e,f   Slatkin, Montgomery ^c   Shapiro, Beth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Department of Environment ^*  (Russian Federation)

^e Research Division Ontario Hydro   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE CONVERSION; GENE FLOW; GENE LOCUS; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POLAR BEAR; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; UNITED STATES; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GENOME; MALE; PHYLOGENY; URSIDAE; X CHROMOSOME;

URSUS AMERICANUS; URSUS ARCTOS; URSUS MARITIMUS;

EID: 84875987634     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003345     Document Type: Article

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