Biodiversity Research

Ancient DNA identifies post-glacial recolonisation, not recent bottlenecks, as the primary driver of contemporary mtDNA phylogeography and diversity in Scandinavian brown bears

  1. Sarah C.E. Bray1,†,
  2. Jeremy J. Austin1,2,†,*,
  3. Jessica L. Metcalf1,3,
  4. Kjartan Østbye4,5,
  5. Eivind Østbye6,
  6. Stein-Erik Lauritzen7,
  7. Kim Aaris-Sørensen8,
  8. Cristina Valdiosera9,
  9. Christina J Adler1,10,
  10. Alan Cooper1

Article first published online: 9 JUN 2012

DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2012.00923.x

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Diversity and Distributions

Diversity and Distributions

Volume 19, Issue 3, pages 245–256, March 2013

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How to Cite

Bray, S. C.E., Austin, J. J., Metcalf, J. L., Østbye, K., Østbye, E., Lauritzen, S.-E., Aaris-Sørensen, K., Valdiosera, C., Adler, C. J. and Cooper, A. (2013), Ancient DNA identifies post-glacial recolonisation, not recent bottlenecks, as the primary driver of contemporary mtDNA phylogeography and diversity in Scandinavian brown bears. Diversity and Distributions, 19: 245–256. doi: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2012.00923.x

Author Information

  1. 1

    Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia

  2. 2

    Sciences Department, Museum Victoria, Carlton Gardens, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

  3. 3

    Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA

  4. 4

    Department of Biology, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

  5. 5

    Department of Forestry and Wildlife Management, Hedmark University College, Elverum, Norway

  6. 6

    Department of Biology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

  7. 7

    Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

  8. 8

    Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Copenhagen, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark

  9. 9

    Centro Mixto, Universidad Complutense de Madrid–Instituto de Salud Carlos III de Evolucion y Comportamiento Humanos, Madrid, Spain

  10. 10

    Faculty of Dentistry, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

  1. †

    These authors contributed equally to this work.

* *Correspondence: Jeremy Austin, Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia.
Email: Jeremy.austin@adelaide.edu.au

  1. †

    These authors contributed equally to this work.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 25 FEB 2013
  2. Article first published online: 9 JUN 2012

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