Polar and brown bear genomes reveal ancient admixture and demographic footprints of past climate change

• Main Authors: Bedoya-Reina, Oscar C., Ibarra-Laclette, Enrique, Herrera-Estrella, Luis, Schuster, Stephan C., Welch, Andreanna J., Miller, Webb, Ratan, Aakrosh, Zhao, Fangqing, Kim, Hie Lim, Burhans, Richard C., Drautz, Daniela I., Wittekindt, Nicola E., Tomsho, Lynn P., Peacock, Elizabeth, Farley, Sean, Sage, George K., Rode, Karyn, Obbard, Martyn, Montiel, Rafael, Bachmann, Lutz, Ingolfsson, Olafur, Aars, Jon, Mailund, Thomas, Wiig, Oystein, Talbot, Sandra L., Lindqvist, Charlotte
• 其他作者: Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering
• 格式: Article
• 語言: English
• 出版: 2013
• 在線閱讀: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/97822; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/12341

Polar bears (PBs) are superbly adapted to the extreme Arctic environment and have become emblematic of the threat to biodiversity from global climate change. Their divergence from the lower-latitude brown bear provides a textbook example of rapid evolution of distinct phenotypes. However, limited mi...