Post-glacial recolonization of insular Newfoundland across the Strait of Belle Isle gave rise to an endemic subspecies of woodland caribou, Rangifer tarandus terranovae (Bangs, 1896): evidence from mtDNA haplotypes

• Main Authors: Wilkerson, Corinne D, Mahoney, Shane P, Carr, Steven M
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: NRC Research Press (a division of Canadian Science Publishing) 2018
• Subjects: Belle Isle; Newfoundland; Strait of Belle Isle; Rangifer tarandus
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/90397; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/gen-2017-0199

Abstract: Post-glacial origins of Woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus ssp) on the island of Newfoundland and their relationship to mainland populations have been uncertain. Sequence analysis of 2,223 bp of the mitochondrial DNA Control Region and Cytochrome b gene from 233 Newfoundland caribou ident...