Continuity of brown bear maternal lineages in northern England through the Last-glacial period

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Edwards, Ceiridwen J. ^{[1
,2
]}

Ho, Simon Y.W. ^{[3
]}

Barnett, Ross ^{[4
,8
]}

Coxon, Peter ^{[5
]}

Bradley, Daniel G. ^{[2
]}

Lord, Tom C. ^{[6
]}

O'Connor, Terry ^{[7
]}

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[1] Research Laboratory for Archaeology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, United Kingdom

[2] Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland

[3] School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia

[4] Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PS, United Kingdom

[5] Department of Geography, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland

[6] Lower Winskill, Langcliffe, Near Settle, North Yorkshire BD24 9PZ, United Kingdom

[7] Department of Archaeology, University of York, Kings Manor, York YO1 7EP, United Kingdom

[8] Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Oster Voldgade 5-7, DK-1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark

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Quaternary Science Reviews | 2014年 / 96卷

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Population statistics - Glacial geology;

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Brown bears recolonised Europe rapidly after the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), but there has been debate about whether bear populations were confined to separate glacial refugia in southern Europe, or if there was continuous gene flow among groups. To look in more detail at recolonisation routes into the British Isles after the LGM, 16 brown bear (Ursus arctos) samples from Lateglacial Yorkshire were analysed for mitochondrial DNA survival. The resulting data were compared with earlier work on Late Pleistocene and Holocene bears from Ireland (Edwards etal., 2011), as well as with both modern and ancient bears from across continental Europe.The results highlight the temporal and spatial continuity of brown bear maternal lineages through the Lateglacial period in northern England. While this region was not a refugial area in the LGM for the Irish Clade 2 brown bears, our data suggest that populations of brown bear in England did act as refugial sources for the later colonisation of Ireland, by Clade 1-i bears, during the Holocene. Our results contribute to a wider understanding of the phylogenetic relationships of brown bears through the Late Quaternary, and lend a valuable perspective on bear migration into peripheral Europe. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.

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