Emily E. Puckett, Isis S. Davis, Dawn C. Harper, Kazumasa Wakamatsu et al.
Color variation is a frequent evolutionary substrate for camouflage in small mammals, but the underlying genetics and evolutionary forces that drive color variation in natural populations of large mammals are mostly unexplained. The American black bear, Ursus americanus (U. americanus), exhibits a r...
Emily E. Puckett, Isis S. Davis, Dawn C. Harper, Kazumasa Wakamatsu et al.
SUMMARY Color variation is a frequent evolutionary substrate for camouflage in small mammals but the underlying genetics and evolutionary forces that drive color variation in natural populations of large mammals are mostly unexplained. The American black bear, Ursus americanus , exhibits a range of ...