2012 PCBs and OH-PCBs in polar bear mother–cub pairs: A comparative study based on plasma levels in 1998 and 2008
Jenny Bytingsvik, Elisabeth Lie, Jon Aars, Andrew E. Derocher, Øystein Wiig, Bjørn M. Jenssen

2011 Reliability of flipper-banded penguins as indicators of climate change
Claire Saraux, Céline Le Bohec, Joël M. Durant, Vincent A. Viblanc, Michel Gauthier-Clerc, David Beaune,
Young-Hyang Park, Nigel G. Yoccoz, Nils C. Stenseth, & Yvon Le Maho

2011 Polar Bears Have Irish Lineage
Some 50,000 years ago, modern polar bears split from a population of Irish brown bears.
By Emily Sohn

2011 Late-Quaternary biogeographic scenarios for the brown bear (Ursus arctos), a wild mammal model species
John Davison, Simon Y.W. Ho, Sarah C. Bray, Marju Korsten, Egle Tammeleht, Maris Hindrikson, Kjartan Østbye, Eivind Østbye, Stein-Erik Lauritzen, Jeremy Austin, Alan Cooper, Urmas Saarma

Ancient Hybridization and an Irish Origin for the Modern Polar Bear Matriline
Ceiridwen J. Edwards, Marc A. Suchard, Philippe Lemey, John J. Welch, Ian Barnes, Tara L. Fulton, Ross Barnett, Tamsin C. O’Connell, Peter Coxon, Nigel Monaghan, Cristina E. Valdiosera, Eline D. Lorenzen, Eske Willerslev, Gennady F. Baryshnikov, Andrew Rambaut, Mark G. Thomas, Daniel G. Bradley and Beth Shapiro

2011 Ancestry of polar bears traced to Ireland

2011 Hibernation in Black Bears: Independence of Metabolic Suppression from Body Temperature
Øivind Tøien, et al.

2010 Taxonomic issues in bears: impacts on conservation in zoos and the wild, and gaps in current knowledge
A. C. KITCHENER

2010 Complete mitochondrial genome of a Pleistocene jawbone unveils the origin of polar bear
Charlotte Lindqvista, Stephan C. Schusterb, Yazhou Sunb, Sandra L. Talbotc, Ji Qib, Aakrosh Ratanb, Lynn P. Tomshob,
Lindsay Kassonb, Eve Zeyld, Jon Aarse, Webb Millerb, Ólafur Ingólfssonf, Lutz Bachmannd, and Øystein Wiigd

2009  Genetic diversity of endangered brown bear (Ursus arctos) populations at the crossroads of Europe, Asia and Africa
Sebastien Calvignac, Sandrine Hughes and Catherine Hanni*

2009 Complete mitochondrial genome of a Pleistocene jawbone unveils the origin of polar bear
Charlotte Lindqvista, Stephan C. Schusterb, Yazhou Sunb, Sandra L. Talbotc, Ji Qib, Aakrosh Ratanb, Lynn P. Tomshob,
Lindsay Kassonb, Eve Zeyld, Jon Aarse, Webb Millerb, Ólafur Ingólfssonf, Lutz Bachmannd, and Øystein Wiigd

2008 QUANTIFYING THE SENSITIVITY OF ARCTIC MARINE MAMMALS TO CLIMATE-INDUCED HABITAT CHANGE
KRISTIN L. LAIDRE, IAN STIRLING, LLOYD F. LOWRY, ØYSTEIN WIIG, MADS PETER HEIDE-JøRGENSEN,
AND STEVEN H. FERGUSON

2008 ARCTIC MARINE MAMMALS AND CLIMATE CHANGE: IMPACTS AND RESILIENCE
SUE E. MOORE AND HENRY P. HUNTINGTON

2008 ZOOARCHAEOLOGY AND ARCTIC MARINE MAMMAL BIOGEOGRAPHY, CONSERVATION, AND MANAGEMENT
MARIBETH S. MURRAY