RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS Nature Reviews Genetics | AOP, published online 20 May 2014; doi:10.1038/nrg3757
MACMILLAN/Paul Bricknell/NPG
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Evolutionary insights from comparative bear genomics The divergence time between the polar bear (Ursus maritimus) and its closest relative the brown bear (Ursus arctos) is much shorter than previously anticipated (