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SUBMITTER: Nakagome S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3827271 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nakagome Shigeki S Mano Shuhei S Hasegawa Masami M
PloS one 20131113 11
Recent studies have reported discordant gene trees in the evolution of brown bears and polar bears. Genealogical histories are different among independent nuclear loci and between biparentally inherited autosomal DNA (aDNA) and matrilineal mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). Based on multi-locus genomic sequences from aDNA and mtDNA, we inferred the population demography of brown and polar bears and found that brown bears have 6 times (aDNA) or more than 14 times (mtDNA) larger population sizes than pola ...[more]