Data from: Evolutionary reconstruction supports the presence of a Pleistocene Arctic refugium for a large mammal species

• Main Authors: Klütsch, Cornelya F. C., Manseau, Micheline, Anderson, Morgan, Sinkins, Peter, Wilson, Paul J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: approximate Bayesian computation; microrefugia; phylogeography; Arctic refugia; subspecies; Arctic; Peary; Boothia Peninsula; Banks Island; Canadian Archipelago; Rangifer tarandus; Beringia
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.153116; https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.t1cc5

Aim: The presence of refugia in the Canadian High Arctic has been subject to debate for decades. We investigated the potential existence of Arctic refugia during the Pleistocene for a large mammal species in the Canadian Archipelago because if these refugia were present, reconsideration of the evolu...