Data from: Consequences of a demographic bottleneck on genetic structure and variation in the Scandinavian brown bear ...

• Main Authors: Xenikoudakis, Georgios, Ersmark, Erik, Waits, Lisette, Kindberg, Jonas, Swenson, Jon E., Dalén, Love
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2015
• Subjects: decline; Ursus arctos; mtDNA; Holocene
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.dn7b8; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.dn7b8

The Scandinavian brown bear went through a major decline in population size approximately 100 years ago, due to intense hunting. After being protected, the population subsequently recovered and today numbers in the thousands. The genetic diversity in the contemporary population has been investigated in considerable detail, and it has been shown that the population consists of several subpopulations that display relatively high levels of genetic variation. However, previous studies have been unable to resolve the degree to which the demographic bottleneck impacted the contemporary genetic structure and diversity. In this study, we used mitochondrial and microsatellite DNA markers from pre- and postbottleneck Scandinavian brown bear samples to investigate the effect of the bottleneck. Simulation and multivariate analysis suggested the same genetic structure for the historical and modern samples, which are clustered into three subpopulations in southern, central and northern Scandinavia. However, the southern ... : BrownBear_historicalsamples_microsatsAlignment_Scandinavian_Brown_Bear_Modern_and_Historical_SamplesSequence alignment including individuals from the historical and modern sample set. Code names with "SC" and "MB" correspond to the historical and modern samples respectively. ...