Temporal genomics reveals widespread but unexpected consequences of a bottleneck in the Scandinavian brown bear Abstract. After the last ice age, the brown bear (Ursus arctos) recolonized Scandinavia, likely from two different source populations, resulting in two sub

Check out our bear-y cool paper about Scandinavian brown bears published today in Royal Society Open Science!🐻 More about it in the thread🧵 @cpgsthlm.bsky.social
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Side view of specimen with measurement and tag

Other side view of specimen with measurements and tag

As promised, what follows is a behind-the-scenes story of how we came across this permafrost-mummified tissue and tried to determine which species it belonged to.

Very happy to share our new paper just published in Genome Biology and Evolution!

Thanks @pikaia.eu.web.brid.gy for this interview!

A nice opportunity to talk about Picenes, aDNA, Iron Age and Roman Empire.

@fravasini.bsky.social @ Beniamino Trombetta