High genetic variability of vagrant polar bears illustrates importance of population connectivity in fragmented sea ice habitats

Arctic marine mammal population status, sea ice habitat loss, and conservation recommendations for the 21st century

(2015) Kristin L. Laidre et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Polar bear population dynamics in the southern Beaufort Sea during a period of sea ice decline

(2015) Jeffrey F. Bromaghin et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Polyhalogenated compounds (PCBs, chlordanes, HCB and BFRs) in four polar bears (Ursus maritimus) that swam malnourished from East Greenland to Iceland

(2015) Walter Vetter et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Implications of the Circumpolar Genetic Structure of Polar Bears for Their Conservation in a Rapidly Warming Arctic

(2015) Elizabeth Peacock et al.   PLoS One

Population Genomics Reveal Recent Speciation and Rapid Evolutionary Adaptation in Polar Bears

(2014) Shiping Liu et al.   CELL

Molecular Phylogeny and SNP Variation of Polar Bears (Ursus maritimus), Brown Bears (U. arctos), and Black Bears (U. americanus) Derived from Genome Sequences

(2014) Matthew A. Cronin et al.   JOURNAL OF HEREDITY

Brown and Polar Bear Y Chromosomes Reveal Extensive Male-Biased Gene Flow within Brother Lineages

(2014) Tobias Bidon et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Design of a 9K illumina BeadChip for polar bears (Ursus maritimus) from RAD and transcriptome sequencing

(2014) René M. Malenfant et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Projected Polar Bear Sea Ice Habitat in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago

(2014) Stephen G. Hamilton et al.   PLoS One

When will the summer Arctic be nearly sea ice free?

(2013) James E. Overland et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

A sensitive and specific multiplex PCR approach for sex identification of ursine and tremarctine bears suitable for non-invasive samples

(2013) Tobias Bidon et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Ecological Consequences of Sea-Ice Decline

(2013) E. Post et al.   SCIENCE

A circumpolar monitoring framework for polar bears

(2013) Dag Vongraven et al.   URSUS

Extensive sampling of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in the Northwest Passage (Canadian Arctic Archipelago) reveals population differentiation across multiple spatial and temporal scales

(2013) Leonardo Campagna et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Genomic Evidence for Island Population Conversion Resolves Conflicting Theories of Polar Bear Evolution

(2013) James A. Cahill et al.   PLoS Genetics

Monitoring sea ice habitat fragmentation for polar bear conservation

(2012) V. Sahanatien et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

GenAlEx 6.5: genetic analysis in Excel. Population genetic software for teaching and research--an update

(2012) R. Peakall et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Bayesian Phylogenetics with BEAUti and the BEAST 1.7

(2012) Alexei J. Drummond et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Genomic consequences of genetic rescue in an insular population of bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis)

(2012) J. M. MILLER et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Sampling for Microsatellite-Based Population Genetic Studies: 25 to 30 Individuals per Population Is Enough to Accurately Estimate Allele Frequencies

(2012) Marie L. Hale et al.   PLoS One

Polar and brown bear genomes reveal ancient admixture and demographic footprints of past climate change

(2012) W. Miller et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Females roam while males patrol: divergence in breeding season movements of pack-ice polar bears (Ursus maritimus)

(2012) K. L. Laidre et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Nuclear Genomic Sequences Reveal that Polar Bears Are an Old and Distinct Bear Lineage

(2012) F. Hailer et al.   SCIENCE

Identification and evaluation of novel di- and tetranucleotide microsatellite markers from the brown bear (Ursus arctos)

(2012) Oddmund Kleven et al.   Conservation Genetics Resources

Ancient Hybridization and an Irish Origin for the Modern Polar Bear Matriline

(2011) Ceiridwen J. Edwards et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Consequences of long-distance swimming and travel over deep-water pack ice for a female polar bear during a year of extreme sea ice retreat

(2011) George M. Durner et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

A tale of two polar bear populations: ice habitat, harvest, and body condition

(2011) Karyn D. Rode et al.   POPULATION ECOLOGY

Predicting survival, reproduction and abundance of polar bears under climate change

(2010) Péter K. Molnár et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Reduced body size and cub recruitment in polar bears associated with sea ice decline

(2010) Karyn D. Rode et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Climate change threatens polar bear populations: a stochastic demographic analysis

(2010) Christine M. Hunter et al.   ECOLOGY

The power of genetic monitoring for studying demography, ecology and genetics of a reintroduced brown bear population

(2010) M. DE BARBA et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Arlequin suite ver 3.5: a new series of programs to perform population genetics analyses under Linux and Windows

(2010) LAURENT EXCOFFIER et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Greenhouse gas mitigation can reduce sea-ice loss and increase polar bear persistence

(2010) Steven C. Amstrup et al.   NATURE

Arctic fox Vulpes lagopus population structure: circumpolar patterns and processes

(2010) Karin Norén et al.   OIKOS

Seasonal home ranges and fidelity to breeding sites among ringed seals

(2010) Brendan P. Kelly et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Complete mitochondrial genome of a Pleistocene jawbone unveils the origin of polar bear

(2010) C. Lindqvist et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Predicting 21st-century polar bear habitat distribution from global climate models

(2009) George M. Durner et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Climate change, connectivity and conservation decision making: back to basics

(2009) Jenny A. Hodgson et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Normalization and binning of historical and multi-source microsatellite data: overcoming the problems of allele size shift with allelogram

(2009) PHILLIP A. MORIN et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Inferring weak population structure with the assistance of sample group information

(2009) MELISSA J. HUBISZ et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Biodiversity management in the face of climate change: A review of 22 years of recommendations

(2008) Nicole E. Heller et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Genetic estimates of contemporary effective population size: what can they tell us about the importance of genetic stochasticity for wild population persistence?

(2008) FRISO P. PALSTRA et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY