Circumpolar Genetic Structure and Recent Gene Flow of Polar Bears: A Reanalysis.

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: René M Malenfant, Corey S Davis, Catherine I Cullingham, David W Coltman
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Science; Q; Arctic; Hudson Bay; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Hudson; Norwegian Bay; Arctic Archipelago; Canadian Archipelago; Climate change; Sea ice; Ursus maritimus
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0148967; https://doaj.org/article/60775bbfa240489f93c9020c5bc2eda6

Recently, an extensive study of 2,748 polar bears (Ursus maritimus) from across their circumpolar range was published in PLOS ONE, which used microsatellites and mitochondrial haplotypes to apparently show altered population structure and a dramatic change in directional gene flow towards the Canadi...