Molecular phylogeography of the brown bear (ursus arctos) in Northeastern Asia based on analyses of complete mitochondrial DNA sequences

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1644-1652

  Hirata, Daisuke ^a   Mano, Tsutomu ^b   Abramov, Alexei V ^c   Baryshnikov, Gennady F ^c   Kosintsev, Pavel A ^d   Vorobiev, Alexandr A ^d   Raichev, Evgeny G ^e   Tsunoda, Hiroshi ^f   Kaneko, Yayoi ^g   Murata, Koichi ^h   Fukui, Daisuke ⁱ   Masuda, Ryuichi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO RESEARCH ORGANIZATION   (Japan)

^c ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND ANIMAL ECOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^e TRAKIA UNIVERSITY   (Bulgaria)

^f GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^h NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ Asahikawa Municipal Asahiyama Zoological Park and Wildlife Conservation Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

brown bear; complete mitochondrial DNA; Hokkaido; phylogeography; Ursus arctos

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; ASIA; BROWN BEAR; COMPLETE MITOCHONDRIAL DNA SEQUENCE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POLAR BEAR;

BROWN BEAR; COMPLETE MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; HOKKAIDO; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; URSUS ARCTOS;

ANIMALS; ASIA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HAPLOTYPES; MITOCHONDRIA; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; URSIDAE;

URSUS ARCTOS; URSUS MARITIMUS;

EID: 84879374761     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mst077     Document Type: Article

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