Mitochondrial DNA diversity and phylogeography of insular Newfoundland red foxes (Vulpes vulpes deletrix)

• Published in: Journal of Mammalogy
• Main Authors: Langille, Barbara L., O'Leary, Kimberly E., Whitney, Hugh G., Marshall, H. Dawn
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2014
• Subjects: Feature Articles; Newfoundland; Canada; Rho; Prince Edward Island
• Online Access: http://jmammal.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/95/4/772; https://doi.org/10.1644/13-MAMM-A-221

As the only native insular Newfoundland, Canada, canid from the extinction of the wolf in the 1930s to the recent arrival of coyotes, the red fox ( Vulpes vulpes deletrix ) poses interesting questions about genetic distinctiveness and the postglacial colonization history of the island's depaupe...