Dire wolves were the last of an ancient New World canid lineage

Dire wolves are considered to be one of the most common and widespread large carnivores in Pleistocene America 1 , yet relatively little is known about their evolution or extinction. Here, to reconstruct the evolutionary history of dire wolves, we sequenced five genomes from sub-fossil remains datin...

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Veröffentlicht in:Nature (London) Jg. 591; H. 7848; S. 87 - 91
Hauptverfasser: Perri, Angela R., Mitchell, Kieren J., Mouton, Alice, Álvarez-Carretero, Sandra, Hulme-Beaman, Ardern, Haile, James, Jamieson, Alexandra, Meachen, Julie, Lin, Audrey T., Schubert, Blaine W., Ameen, Carly, Antipina, Ekaterina E., Bover, Pere, Brace, Selina, Carmagnini, Alberto, Carøe, Christian, Samaniego Castruita, Jose A., Chatters, James C., Dobney, Keith, dos Reis, Mario, Evin, Allowen, Gaubert, Philippe, Gopalakrishnan, Shyam, Gower, Graham, Heiniger, Holly, Helgen, Kristofer M., Kapp, Josh, Kosintsev, Pavel A., Linderholm, Anna, Ozga, Andrew T., Presslee, Samantha, Salis, Alexander T., Saremi, Nedda F., Shew, Colin, Skerry, Katherine, Taranenko, Dmitry E., Thompson, Mary, Sablin, Mikhail V., Kuzmin, Yaroslav V., Collins, Matthew J., Sinding, Mikkel-Holger S., Gilbert, M. Thomas P., Stone, Anne C., Shapiro, Beth, Van Valkenburgh, Blaire, Wayne, Robert K., Larson, Greger, Cooper, Alan, Frantz, Laurent A. F.
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: London Nature Publishing Group UK 04.03.2021
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Animals
Biological evolution
Canidae
Carnivores
Coyotes
Deoxyribonucleic acid
Divergence
DNA
Dogs
Endangered & extinct species
Environmental Sciences
Evolutionary genetics
Extinction
Extinction, Biological
Fossils
Gene Flow
Genealogy
Genome - genetics
Genomes
Genomics
Geographic Mapping
Humanities and Social Sciences
Hybridization
Hypotheses
Life sciences
multidisciplinary
North America
Paleontology
Phenotype
Phylogenetics
Phylogeny
Pleistocene
Science
Science (multidisciplinary)
Sciences du vivant
Taxonomy
Wolves
Wolves - classification
Wolves - genetics
Zoologie
Zoology
North America
ISSN:0028-0836, 1476-4687, 1476-4687
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Zusammenfassung:Dire wolves are considered to be one of the most common and widespread large carnivores in Pleistocene America 1 , yet relatively little is known about their evolution or extinction. Here, to reconstruct the evolutionary history of dire wolves, we sequenced five genomes from sub-fossil remains dating from 13,000 to more than 50,000 years ago. Our results indicate that although they were similar morphologically to the extant grey wolf, dire wolves were a highly divergent lineage that split from living canids around 5.7 million years ago. In contrast to numerous examples of hybridization across Canidae 2 , 3 , there is no evidence for gene flow between dire wolves and either North American grey wolves or coyotes. This suggests that dire wolves evolved in isolation from the Pleistocene ancestors of these species. Our results also support an early New World origin of dire wolves, while the ancestors of grey wolves, coyotes and dholes evolved in Eurasia and colonized North America only relatively recently. Dire wolves split from living canids around 5.7 million years ago and originated in the New World isolated from the ancestors of grey wolves and coyotes, which evolved in Eurasia and colonized North America only relatively recently.
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ISSN:0028-0836
1476-4687
1476-4687
DOI:10.1038/s41586-020-03082-x