Phylogeography, genetic diversity, and connectivity of brown bear populations in Central Asia

• Odbayar Tumendemberel ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: odbayar.tumendemberel@usn.no

  Affiliation Department of Natural Science and Environmental Health, University of South-Eastern Norway, Bø i Telemark, Norway

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2105-3836

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• Andreas Zedrosser,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Natural Science and Environmental Health, University of South-Eastern Norway, Bø i Telemark, Norway

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• Michael F. Proctor,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Birchdale Ecological, Kaslo, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9461-2774

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• Harry V. Reynolds,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Gobi Bear Fund Inc, Fairbanks, Alaska, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7770-4397

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• Jennifer R. Adams,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Fish and Wildlife Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, United States of America

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• Jack M. Sullivan,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, United States of America

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• Sarah J. Jacobs,

  Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3125-6266

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• Tumennasan Khorloojav,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation Genetics Laboratory, Institute of General and Experimental Biology, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

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• Tuya Tserenbataa,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliation Sunshine Village Complex, Bayanzurkh District, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-3926

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• Mijiddorj Batmunkh,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliation Mongolian-Chinese Joint Molecular Biology Laboratory, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

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• Jon E. Swenson,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway

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• Lisette P. Waits

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Fish and Wildlife Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1323-0812

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