Genetics Of The Pyrenean Brown Bear (Ursus-Arctos) - 1st Results

• Main Authors: Taberlet, P., Bouvet, J.
• Other Authors: Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine (LECA), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB Université de Savoie Université de Chambéry )
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 1992
• Subjects: MITOCHONDRIAL-DNA; AMPLIFICATION; POPULATIONS; EVOLUTION; SEQUENCES; envir; manag; Ursus arctos
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/halsde-00281068

Times Cited: 9 International audience Total DNA has been extracted from cells found at the base of a single hair plucked from a captive Pyrenean brown bear (U. arctos). A 307-base pair portion of the cytochrome b gene (encoded by mitochondrial DNA) has been sequenced using DNA amplified by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). A phylogenetic tree has been constructed, based on this and three other homologous sequences recently published by Shields and Kocher [4]. It suggests that the Pyrenean brown bear was already separated well before the recent split between the Alaskan brown bear (U. arctos) and the polar bear (U. maritimus).