Cave canem! The earliest Canis (Xenocyon)(Canidae, Mammalia) of Europe: Taxonomic affinities and paleoecology of the fossil wild dogs

S Bartolini-Lucenti, N Spassov - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Unlike their medium-sized relatives of the genus Canis, whose arrival is dated around 3 Ma,
the appearance in western Europe of large-sized hypercarnivorous canids took place at the …

The earliest Ethiopian wolf: implications for the species evolution and its future survival

B Martínez-Navarro, T Gossa, F Carotenuto… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract In 2017, a hemimandible (MW5-B208), corresponding to the Ethiopian wolf (Canis
simensis), was found in a stratigraphically-controlled and radio-isotopically-dated sequence …

Museomics provides insights into conservation and education: The instance of an African lion specimen from the Museum of Zoology “Pietro Doderlein”

E Cilli, F Fontani, MM Ciucani, M Pizzuto… - Diversity, 2023 - mdpi.com
Innovative technological approaches are crucial to enhance naturalistic museum collections
and develop information repositories of relevant interest to science, such as threatened …

The extinct Sicilian wolf shows a complex history of isolation and admixture with ancient dogs

MM Ciucani, J Ramos-Madrigal, G Hernández-Alonso… - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
The Sicilian wolf remained isolated in Sicily from the end of the Pleistocene until its
extermination in the 1930s–1960s. Given its long-term isolation on the island and distinctive …

Ancient DNA re-opens the question of the phylogenetic position of the Sardinian pika Prolagus sardus (Wagner, 1829), an extinct lagomorph

VJ Utzeri, E Cilli, F Fontani, D Zoboli, M Orsini… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Palaeogenomics is contributing to refine our understanding of many major evolutionary
events at an unprecedented resolution, with relevant impacts in several fields, including …

Middle Pleistocene Xenocyon lycaonoides Kretzoi, 1938 in northeastern China and the evolution of Xenocyon-Lycaon lineage

Q Jiangzuo, Y Wang, Y Song, S Liu, C Jin, J Liu - Historical Biology, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Xenocyon lycaonoides is a well-represented large canid known from the middle Early
Pleistocene to Middle Pleistocene in Europe, central Asia, and Alaska, yet its fossil record in …

Genomes of the extinct Sicilian wolf reveal a complex history of isolation and admixture with ancient dogs

MM Ciucani, J Ramos-Madrigal, G Hernández-Alonso… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
The Sicilian wolf represented the only population of wolves living on a Mediterranean island
until the first half of the twentieth century (1930s-1960s)–. Previous studies hypothesised …

The first complete genome of the extinct European wild ass (Equus hemionus hydruntinus)

M Özkan, K Gürün, E Yüncü, KB Vural, G Atağ… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
We present paleogenomes of three morphologically-unidentified Anatolian equids dating to
the 1st millennium BCE, sequenced to coverages of 0.6-6.4 X. Mitochondrial DNA …

[图书][B] Canis Introgression in Ohio's Coyotes: Spatial Patterns and Interspecific Interactions

EM Wyza - 2023 - search.proquest.com
Since the 1800s, eastern North American landscapes have experienced extensive
anthropogenic changes. Large swaths of forest were timbered, innumerable roads and …