Response to Comment on "Nuclear Genomic Sequences Reveal that Polar Bears Are an Old and Distinct Bear Lineage"

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

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Insights into hominid evolution from the gorilla genome sequence

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

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

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

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CALIBRATING DIVERGENCE TIMES ON SPECIES TREES VERSUS GENE TREES: IMPLICATIONS FOR SPECIATION HISTORY OF APHELOCOMA JAYS

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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

Genetic Variation, Relatedness, and Effective Population Size of Polar Bears (Ursus maritimus) in the southern Beaufort Sea, Alaska

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Bayesian Inference of Species Trees from Multilocus Data

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IS A NEW AND GENERAL THEORY OF MOLECULAR SYSTEMATICS EMERGING?

(2008) Scott V. Edwards   EVOLUTION