Brock Wooldridge (@tywooldr.bsky.social)

@tywooldr.bsky.social et al. present assemblies for three bear species — the sun, sloth, and Andean bears — and use a whole-genome alignment of all bear species and other carnivores to reconstruct the evolution of Ursidae. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf188 #genome #evolution

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Chromosome-scale Genomes Show Rapid Diversification and Ancient Gene Flow Among Bear Species Abstract. Reconstructions of evolutionary history can be restricted by a lack of high-quality reference genomes. To date, only four of the eight species of https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf188