… drying method performance for 61 brown bear fecal samples by determining polymerase
chain reaction (PCR) amplification success rates for 3 fragments of brown bear DNA: a short (…

… For the control region, we assume that the two European lineages of brown bears are
separated by 7.03% difference at the DNA level and that they diverged 850,000 years ago [ …

… obtained using mtDNA and nuclear DNA markers stresses the importance … DNA data sets,
we propose one evolutionarily significant unit and four management units for the brown bear …

… We present the first comprehensive mtDNA sequence analysis of brown bears from across
their … , we present recommendations for the conservation of the North American brown bear. …

… DNA samples under varying summer field conditions, we collected 53 faeces from captive
brown bears (… were sampled for DNA extraction at <1, 3, 6, 14, 30, 45, and 60 days. Faecal …

… black bear with our sequences from brown bears revealed additional sequence differences
in the DNA flanking the tandem repeat arrays at some of the loci. The brown bear sequences …

… (bp) of the mitochondrial (mt) DNA control region exhibits enough variations to … brown bear.
Therefore, this region, flanking the Pro tRNA gene, has been sequenced for 60 brown bears …

… brown bears, which became extinct during the Holocene period. A divergent brown bear
mitochondrial DNA lineage not present in any of the previously studied modern or ancient bear …

… The aims of this study are to develop a quality assured approach for DNA profiling of brown
bears (Ursus arctos) in Northern Europe using material from non-invasive sampling and to …

… Indeed, we observed that more than 50% of the DNA extracts yielded enough template
DNA for obtaining some PCR products, but not enough to analyse six loci using the multiple-…