Brown and polar bear y chromosomes reveal extensive male-biased gene flow within brother lineages

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1353-1363

  Bidon, Tobias ^a   Janke, Axel ^a,b   Fain, Steven R ^c   Eiken, Hans Geir ^d   Hagen, Snorre B ^d   Saarma, Urmas ^e   Hallström, Björn M ^a,f   Lecomte, Nicolas ^g   Hailer, Frank ^a  

^a BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c US Fish and Wildlife National Forensics Laboratory   (United States)

^d NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^f SCIENCE FOR LIFE LABORATORY   (Sweden)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DE MONCTON   (Canada)

Author keywords

bears; introgression; microsatellite; phylogeography; SNP; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; DNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; BROWN BEAR; GENE FLOW; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HAPLOTYPE; INTROGRESSION; MALE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE; MONOPHYLY; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PHILOPATRY; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POLAR BEAR; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; Y CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; BEAR; CHROMOSOME; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; SIBLING; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; DNA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPLOTYPES; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEX FACTORS; SIBLINGS; URSIDAE; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84901405219     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msu109     Document Type: Article

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