Data from: Genome-wide evidence reveals that African and Eurasian Golden Jackals are distinct species
The golden jackal of Africa (Canis aureus) has long been considered a conspecific of jackals distributed throughout Eurasia, with the nearest source populations in the Middle East. However, two recent reports found that mitochondrial haplotypes of some African golden jackals aligned more closely to...
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ftdryad:oai:v1.datadryad.org:10255/dryad.90620 2023-05-15T15:50:53+02:00 Data from: Genome-wide evidence reveals that African and Eurasian Golden Jackals are distinct species Koepfli, Klaus-Peter Pollinger, John Godinho, Raquel Robinson, Jacqueline Lea, Amanda Hendricks, Sarah Schweizer, Rena M. Thalmann, Olaf Silva, Pedro Fan, Zhenxin Yurchenko, Andrey A. Dobrynin, Pavel Makunin, Alexey Cahill, James A. Shapiro, Beth Álvares, Francisco Brito, José C. Geffen, Eli Leonard, Jennifer A. Helgen, Kristofer M. Johnson, Warren E. O'Brien, Stephen J. Van Valkenburgh, Blaire Wayne, Robert K. 2015-08-17T11:49:16Z http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.90620 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.3b77f unknown doi:10.5061/dryad.3b77f/1 doi:10.5061/dryad.3b77f/2 doi:10.5061/dryad.3b77f/3 doi:10.5061/dryad.3b77f/4 doi:10.5061/dryad.3b77f/5 doi:10.5061/dryad.3b77f/6 doi:10.5061/dryad.3b77f/7 doi:10.5061/dryad.3b77f/8 doi:10.5061/dryad.3b77f/9 doi:10.5061/dryad.3b77f/10 doi:10.5061/dryad.3b77f/11 doi:10.1016/j.cub.2015.06.060 PMID:26234211 doi:10.5061/dryad.3b77f Koepfli K, Pollinger J, Godinho R, Robinson J, Lea A, Hendricks S, Schweizer RM, Thalmann O, Silva P, Fan Z, Yurchenko AA, Dobrynin P, Makunin A, Cahill JA, Shapiro B, Álvares F, Brito JC, Geffen E, Leonard JA, Helgen KM, Johnson WE, O'Brien SJ, Van Valkenburgh B, Wayne RK (2015) Genome-wide evidence reveals that African and Eurasian Golden Jackals are distinct species. Current Biology 25(16): 2158–2165. http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.90620 Article 2015 ftdryad https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.3b77f https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.3b77f/1 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.3b77f/2 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.3b77f/3 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.3b77f/4 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.3b77f/5 https://doi.org/1 2020-01-01T15:21:23Z The golden jackal of Africa (Canis aureus) has long been considered a conspecific of jackals distributed throughout Eurasia, with the nearest source populations in the Middle East. However, two recent reports found that mitochondrial haplotypes of some African golden jackals aligned more closely to gray wolves (Canis lupus), which is surprising given the absence of gray wolves in Africa and the phenotypic divergence between the two species. Moreover, these results imply the existence of a previously unrecognized phylogenetically distinct species despite a long history of taxonomic work on African canids. To test the distinct-species hypothesis and understand the evolutionary history that would account for this puzzling result, we analyzed extensive genomic data including mitochondrial genome sequences, sequences from 20 autosomal loci (17 introns and 3 exon segments), microsatellite loci, X- and Y-linked zinc-finger protein gene (ZFX and ZFY) sequences, and whole-genome nuclear sequences in African and Eurasian golden jackals and gray wolves. Our results provide consistent and robust evidence that populations of golden jackals from Africa and Eurasia represent distinct monophyletic lineages separated for more than one million years, sufficient to merit formal recognition as different species: C. anthus (African golden wolf) and C. aureus (Eurasian golden jackal). Using morphologic data, we demonstrate a striking morphologic similarity between East African and Eurasian golden jackals, suggesting parallelism, which may have misled taxonomists and likely reflects uniquely intense interspecific competition in the East African carnivore guild. Our study shows how ecology can confound taxonomy if interspecific competition constrains size diversification. Article in Journal/Newspaper Canis lupus Dryad Digital Repository (Duke University) |
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The golden jackal of Africa (Canis aureus) has long been considered a conspecific of jackals distributed throughout Eurasia, with the nearest source populations in the Middle East. However, two recent reports found that mitochondrial haplotypes of some African golden jackals aligned more closely to gray wolves (Canis lupus), which is surprising given the absence of gray wolves in Africa and the phenotypic divergence between the two species. Moreover, these results imply the existence of a previously unrecognized phylogenetically distinct species despite a long history of taxonomic work on African canids. To test the distinct-species hypothesis and understand the evolutionary history that would account for this puzzling result, we analyzed extensive genomic data including mitochondrial genome sequences, sequences from 20 autosomal loci (17 introns and 3 exon segments), microsatellite loci, X- and Y-linked zinc-finger protein gene (ZFX and ZFY) sequences, and whole-genome nuclear sequences in African and Eurasian golden jackals and gray wolves. Our results provide consistent and robust evidence that populations of golden jackals from Africa and Eurasia represent distinct monophyletic lineages separated for more than one million years, sufficient to merit formal recognition as different species: C. anthus (African golden wolf) and C. aureus (Eurasian golden jackal). Using morphologic data, we demonstrate a striking morphologic similarity between East African and Eurasian golden jackals, suggesting parallelism, which may have misled taxonomists and likely reflects uniquely intense interspecific competition in the East African carnivore guild. Our study shows how ecology can confound taxonomy if interspecific competition constrains size diversification. |
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Koepfli, Klaus-Peter Pollinger, John Godinho, Raquel Robinson, Jacqueline Lea, Amanda Hendricks, Sarah Schweizer, Rena M. Thalmann, Olaf Silva, Pedro Fan, Zhenxin Yurchenko, Andrey A. Dobrynin, Pavel Makunin, Alexey Cahill, James A. Shapiro, Beth Álvares, Francisco Brito, José C. Geffen, Eli Leonard, Jennifer A. Helgen, Kristofer M. Johnson, Warren E. O'Brien, Stephen J. Van Valkenburgh, Blaire Wayne, Robert K. |
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Koepfli, Klaus-Peter Pollinger, John Godinho, Raquel Robinson, Jacqueline Lea, Amanda Hendricks, Sarah Schweizer, Rena M. Thalmann, Olaf Silva, Pedro Fan, Zhenxin Yurchenko, Andrey A. Dobrynin, Pavel Makunin, Alexey Cahill, James A. Shapiro, Beth Álvares, Francisco Brito, José C. Geffen, Eli Leonard, Jennifer A. Helgen, Kristofer M. Johnson, Warren E. O'Brien, Stephen J. Van Valkenburgh, Blaire Wayne, Robert K. Data from: Genome-wide evidence reveals that African and Eurasian Golden Jackals are distinct species |
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Koepfli, Klaus-Peter Pollinger, John Godinho, Raquel Robinson, Jacqueline Lea, Amanda Hendricks, Sarah Schweizer, Rena M. Thalmann, Olaf Silva, Pedro Fan, Zhenxin Yurchenko, Andrey A. Dobrynin, Pavel Makunin, Alexey Cahill, James A. Shapiro, Beth Álvares, Francisco Brito, José C. Geffen, Eli Leonard, Jennifer A. Helgen, Kristofer M. Johnson, Warren E. O'Brien, Stephen J. Van Valkenburgh, Blaire Wayne, Robert K. |
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Data from: Genome-wide evidence reveals that African and Eurasian Golden Jackals are distinct species |
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Data from: Genome-wide evidence reveals that African and Eurasian Golden Jackals are distinct species |
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Data from: Genome-wide evidence reveals that African and Eurasian Golden Jackals are distinct species |
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Data from: Genome-wide evidence reveals that African and Eurasian Golden Jackals are distinct species |
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Data from: Genome-wide evidence reveals that African and Eurasian Golden Jackals are distinct species |
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data from: genome-wide evidence reveals that african and eurasian golden jackals are distinct species |
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