Paternal phylogeographic structure of the brown bear (Ursus arctos) in northeastern Asia and the effect of male-mediated gene flow to insular populations

• Published in: Zoological Letters
• Main Authors: Daisuke Hirata, Tsutomu Mano, Alexei V. Abramov, Gennady F. Baryshnikov, Pavel A. Kosintsev, Koichi Murata, Ryuichi Masuda
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: BMC 2017
• Subjects: Brown bear; Hokkaido; Phylogeography; Sex-biased dispersal; Ursus arctos; Y-chromosomal DNA; Zoology; QL1-991; Kamchatka Peninsula; Kamchatka; Sakhalin; ural mountains
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40851-017-0084-5; https://doaj.org/article/9efdbca3a649495abadeb11dfe1fda11

Abstract Background Sex-biased dispersal is widespread among mammals, including the brown bear (Ursus arctos). Previous phylogeographic studies of the brown bear based on maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA have shown intraspecific genetic structuring around the northern hemisphere. The brown bea...