Worldwide patterns of genomic variation and admixture in gray wolves

• Published in: Genome Research
• Main Authors: Fan, Zhenxin, Silva, Pedro, Gronau, Ilan, Wang, Shuoguo, Serres Armero, Aitor, 1992-, Schweizer, Rena M., Ramírez, Oscar, Pollinger, John, Galaverni, Marco, Ortega Del-Vecchyo, Diego, Du, Lianming, Zhang, Wenping, Zhang, Zhihe, Xing, Jinchuan, Vilà, Carles, Marquès i Bonet, Tomàs, 1975-, Godinho, Raquel, Yue, Bisong, Wayne, Robert K.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (CSHL Press)
• Subjects: Genètica animal; Kya; Canis lupus; gray wolf
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/26027; https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.197517.115

The gray wolf (Canis lupus) is a widely distributed top predator and ancestor of the domestic dog. To address questions about wolf relationships to each other and dogs, we assembled and analyzed a data set of 34 canine genomes. The divergence between New and Old World wolves is the earliest branchin...