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Consequences of a demographic bottleneck on genetic structure and variation in the Scandinavian brown bear.
Molecular ecology - 1 Jul 2015
Xenikoudakis G, Ersmark E, Tison J-L, Waits L, Kindberg J, Swenson J E, Dalén L
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The Scandinavian brown bear went through a major decline in population size approximately 100 years ago, due to intense hunting. After being protected, the population subsequently recovered and today numbers in the thousands. The genetic diversity in the contemporary population has been investigated in considerable detail, and it has been shown that the population consists of several subpopulations that display...
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