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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Published in:	Nature (London) Vol. 591; no. 7848; pp. 87 - 91
Main Authors:	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
Language:	English
Published:	London Nature Publishing Group UK 04.03.2021 Nature Publishing Group
Subjects:	45/23 631/181/2474 631/181/414 631/181/757 631/181/759 82/58 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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