Lions and brown bears colonized North America in multiple synchronous waves of dispersal across the Bering Land Bridge
A. T. Salis, S. C. E. Bray, M. S. Y. Lee, H. Heiniger, R. Barnett, J. A. Burns, V. Doronichev, D. Fedje, L. Golovanova, C. R. Harington, B. Hockett, P. Kosintsev, X. Lai, Q. Mackie, S. Vasiliev, , K. J. Mitchell
This study analyzes mitochondrial genomes of ancient brown bears and lions to show synchronous dispersal and extinction events across the Bering Land Bridge during the Pleistocene.
bioRxiv · Sep 3, 2020Evolutionary Biology