Genome-wide evidence reveals that African and Eurasian golden jackals are distinct species

• Published in: Current Biology
• Main Authors: Koepfli, K., Pollinger, J., Godinho, R., Robinson, J., Lea, A., Hendricks, S., Schweizer, R., Thalmann, O., Silva, P., Fan, Z., Yurchenko, A., Dobrynin, P., Makunin, A., Cahill, J., Shapiro, B., Álvares, F., Brito, J., Geffen, E., Leonard, J., Helgen, K.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cell Press 2015
• Subjects: Jackals; Wolves; Klaus; Cahill; Canis lupus
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2440/104201; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.06.060

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...