The grey wolf (C anis lupus) is an iconic large carnivore that has increasingly been recognized as an apex predator with intrinsic value and a keystone species. However …
X Guo, Z Zhang, L Qi, S Liu, Y Tang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recycling, reusing, and remanufacturing of end-of-life (EOL) products have been receiving increasing attention. They effectively preserve the ecological environment and promote the …
The origin of domestic dogs is poorly understood [1–15], with suggested evidence of dog- like features in fossils that predate the Last Glacial Maximum [6, 9, 10, 14, 16] conflicting with …
Z Fan, P Silva, I Gronau, S Wang, AS Armero… - Genome …, 2016 - genome.cshlp.org
The gray wolf (Canis lupus) is a widely distributed top predator and ancestor of the domestic dog. To address questions about wolf relationships to each other and dogs, we assembled …
M Germonpré, M Lázničková-Galetová… - Journal of Archaeological …, 2012 - Elsevier
Whether or not the wolf was domesticated during the early Upper Palaeolithic remains a controversial issue. We carried out detailed analyses of the skull material from the Gravettian …
L Smeds, H Ellegren - Molecular Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
When new mutations arise at functional sites they are more likely to impair than improve fitness. If not removed by purifying selection, such deleterious mutations will generate a …
Disentangling the contribution of long‐term evolutionary processes and recent anthropogenic impacts to current genetic patterns of wildlife species is key to assessing …
The taxonomic identity and status of the Australian Dingo has been unsettled and controversial since its initial description in 1792. Since that time it has been referred to by …
Hybridization and introgression can impact the evolution of natural populations. Several wild canid species hybridize in nature, sometimes originating new taxa. However, hybridization …