Diversity lost: are all Holarctic large mammal species just relict populations?
Population genetic analyses of Eurasian wolves published recently in BMC Evolutionary Biology suggest that a major genetic turnover took place in Eurasian wolves after the Pleistocene. These results add to the growing evidence that large mammal species surviving the late Pleistocene extinctions neve...
Published in: | BMC Biology |
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Main Authors: | , |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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2010
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Online Access: | https://repository.royalholloway.ac.uk/items/a7e4427a-7b7c-792f-163e-38fea1dec69e/1/ https://doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-8-46 |
Summary: | Population genetic analyses of Eurasian wolves published recently in BMC Evolutionary Biology suggest that a major genetic turnover took place in Eurasian wolves after the Pleistocene. These results add to the growing evidence that large mammal species surviving the late Pleistocene extinctions nevertheless lost a large share of their genetic diversity. |
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