Genomic evidence of geographically widespread effect of gene flow from polar bears into brown bears

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1205-1217

  Cahill, James A ^a   Stirling, Ian ^b   Kistler, Logan ^c   Salamzade, Rauf ^d   Ersmark, Erik ^e   Fulton, Tara L ^a   Stiller, Mathias ^a,f   Green, Richard E ^d   Shapiro, Beth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Wildlife Research Division Department of Environment   (Canada)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^e SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

brown bear; ecological genetics; genomics; hybridization; polar bear; Ursus

Indexed keywords

URSUS; URSUS ARCTOS; URSUS MARITIMUS;

ALASKA; ANIMAL; ARCTIC; BEAR; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GENETICS; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; X CHROMOSOME;

ALASKA; ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; EUROPE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GENETICS, POPULATION; MALE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; URSIDAE; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84924966079     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.13038     Document Type: Article

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