title: Response to comment on "Nuclear genomic sequences reveal that polar bears are an old and distinct bear lineage".
abstract: Nakagome et al. reanalyzed some of our data and assert that we cannot refute the mitochondrial DNA-based scenario for polar bear evolution. Their single-locus test statistic is strongly affected by introgression and incomplete lineage sorting, whereas our multilocus approaches are better suited to recover the true species relationships. Indeed, our sister-lineage model receives high support in a Bayesian model comparison.
authors.affiliation: Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Hailer
authors.forename: Verena E
authors.initials: VE
authors.lastname: Kutschera
authors.forename: Björn M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Hallström
authors.forename: Steven R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Fain
authors.forename: Jennifer A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Leonard
authors.forename: Ulfur
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Arnason
authors.forename: Axel
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Janke
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D016678:Genome; D058885:Multilocus Sequence Typing; D001503:Ursidae / Q000235:genetics*