Bears of the Pleistocene

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Cave Bears and Brown Bears: Phylogenetic distance tree showing the placement of the cave bear sequences when the 139 bp control region fragment is used. The tree was calculated by the NJ method. Bootstrap values obtained after 1000 replicates are indicated for each branch. The tree is rooted with two U. americanus sequences. The various populations of brown bear are designated as in [7], as follows: PYR (Pyrenees, France), CAN (Cantabrian mountains, Spain), NOR (Norway), DAL (Dalarna, Sweden), CRO (Croatia), SLO (Trentino, Italy), ABR (Abruzzo, Italy), BUL (Bulgaria), GRE (Greece), EST (Estonia), RUS (Russia, Slovakia, Lapland, and Finland), RO (Romania)
                                                  

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