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...

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Published in:BMC Biology
Main Authors: Hofreiter, Michael, Barnes, Ian
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2010
Subjects:
Animals
Arctic Regions
Biodiversity
DNA
Mitochondrial
Europe
Fossils
Genetics
Population
Mammals
North America
Research Groups and Centres\Ecology Evolution and Behaviour
Faculty of Science\Biological Science
Arctic
Online Access:https://repository.royalholloway.ac.uk/items/a7e4427a-7b7c-792f-163e-38fea1dec69e/3/
https://doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-8-46
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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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