@tywooldr.bsky.social et al. present assemblies for three bear species ā the sun, sloth, and Andean bears ā and use a whole-genome alignment of all bear species and other carnivores to reconstruct the evolution of Ursidae.
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Abstract. Reconstructions of evolutionary history can be restricted by a lack of high-quality reference genomes. To date, only four of the eight species of
