Article
Colonizing the High Arctic: Mitochondrial DNA Reveals Common Origin of Eurasian Archipelagic Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus).
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
Kvie Kjersti S, Heggenes Jan, Anderson David G, Kholodova Marina V, Sipko Taras, Mizin Ivan, Røed Knut H
Abstract excerpt
In light of current debates on global climate change it has become important to know more on how large, roaming species have responded to environmental change in the past. Using the highly variable mitochondrial control region, we revisit theories of Rangifer colonization and propose that the High Arctic archipelagos of Svalbard, Franz Josef Land, and Novaia Zemlia were colonized by reindeer from the Eurasian...
Topics
- Animals
- Arctic Regions
- DNA
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Genetic Variation
- Haplotypes
- Mitochondria
- Phylogeny
- Reindeer