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
• Other Authors: Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/97822; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/12341
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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...