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The influence of climatic oscillations during the Quaternary Era on the genetic structure of Asian black bears in Japan.
Heredity - 1 Jun 2009
Ohnishi N, Uno R, Ishibashi Y, Tamate H B, Oi T
Abstract excerpt
The Asian black bear (Ursus thibetanus) inhabits two of the main islands, Honshu and Shikoku, in Japan. To determine how climatic oscillations during the Quaternary Era affected the genetic structure of the black bear populations in Japan, we examined their phylogeographic relationships and compared their genetic structure. We analysed an approximately 700-bp sequence in the D-loop region of mitochondrial DNA...
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