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Grizzly bear population genomics across a coastal-interior ecotone in British Columbia, Canada.
G3 (Bethesda, Md.) - 10 Dec 2025
Henson Lauren H, Christensen Kris A, Sutherland Ben J G, Johnson Hollie A, vonHoldt Bridgett, Stronen Astrid Vik, Paquet Paul C, Moody Jason, Koop Ben F, Darimont Chris T
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Local adaptation research often focuses on discrete populations without extensive gene flow that are under differential selective pressures. By contrast, grizzly bears Ursus arctos in British Columbia (BC) are wide-ranging omnivores that span an environmental and resource ecotone from the coastal, salmon-enriched rainforest to dry interior plateau. This ecotone has been associated with local adaptation in other...
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