Data from: North-south differentiation and a region of high diversity in European wolves (Canis lupus) ...

• Main Authors: Stronen, Astrid V., Jędrzejewska, Bogumiła, Pertoldi, Cino, Demontis, Ditte, Randi, Ettore, Niedziałkowska, Magdalena, Pilot, Małgorzata, Sidorovich, Vadim E., Dykyy, Ihor, Kusak, Josip, Tsingarska, Elena, Kojola, Ilpo, Karamanlidis, Alexandros A., Ornicans, Aivars, Lobkov, Vladimir A., Dumenko, Vitalii P., Czarnomska, Sylwia D.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2014
• Subjects: single nucleotide polymorphism; genome scan; Canis lupus; Holocene
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.9s1t9; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.9s1t9

European wolves (Canis lupus) show population genetic structure in the absence of geographic barriers, and across relatively short distances for this highly mobile species. Additional information on the location of and divergence between population clusters is required, particularly because wolves are currently recolonizing parts of Europe. We evaluated genetic structure in 177 wolves from 11 countries using over 67K single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) loci. The results supported previous findings of an isolated Italian population with lower genetic diversity than that observed across other areas of Europe. Wolves from the remaining countries were primarily structured in a north-south axis, with Croatia, Bulgaria, and Greece (Dinaric-Balkan) differentiated from northcentral wolves that included individuals from Finland, Latvia, Belarus, Poland and Russia. Carpathian Mountain wolves in central Europe had genotypes intermediate between those identified in northcentral Europe and the Dinaric-Balkan cluster. ... : WolvesAll_22feb2012.pedSingle nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) raw data files for 177 individuals for use with the software PLINK: PED file.WolvesAll_22feb2012.mapSingle nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) raw data files for 177 individuals for use with the software PLINK: MAP file.Italy.txtSingle nucleotide polymorphism loci not in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium for one of the five population clusters detected in the analyses (please see Figure 1, Table 3).Dinaric-Balkan.txtSingle nucleotide polymorphism loci not in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium for one of the five population clusters detected in the analyses (please see Figure 1, Table 3).Carpathians.txtSingle nucleotide polymorphism loci not in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium for one of the five population clusters detected in the analyses (please see Figure 1, Table 3).Northcentral_Europe.txtSingle nucleotide polymorphism loci not in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium for one of the five population clusters detected in the analyses (please see Figure 1, Table ...