Colonizing the High Arctic: Mitochondrial DNA Reveals Common Origin of Eurasian Archipelagic Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus)

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Kvie, Kjersti S., Heggenes, Jan, Anderson, David G., Kholodova, Marina V., Sipko, Taras, Mizin, Ivan, Røed, Knut H.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2016
• Subjects: Research Article; Arctic; Franz Josef Land; Svalbard; Climate change; Rangifer tarandus
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5120779/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27880778; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0165237

In light of current debates on global climate change it has become important to know more on how large, roaming species have responded to environmental change in the past. Using the highly variable mitochondrial control region, we revisit theories of Rangifer colonization and propose that the High A...