Insights into bear evolution from a Pleistocene polar bear genome
T. Lan, K. Leppala, C. Tomlin, S. L. Talbot, G. K. Sage, S. Farley, R. T. Shideler, L. Bachmann, O. Wiig, V. A. Albert, J. Salojarvi, T. Mailund, D. I. Drautz-Moses, S. C. Schuster, L. Herrera-Estrella, C. Lindqvist
This paper analyzes ancient and modern polar and brown bear genomes to study evolutionary history and gene flow, finding evidence of ancient introgression from brown bears into polar bears.
bioRxiv · Dec 11, 2021Evolutionary Biology