Worldwide patterns of genomic variation and admixture in gray wolves

• Published in: Genome research Vol. 26; no. 2; pp. 163 - 173
• Main Authors: Fan, Zhenxin, Silva, Pedro, Gronau, Ilan, Wang, Shuoguo, Armero, Aitor Serres, Schweizer, Rena M., Ramirez, Oscar, Pollinger, John, Galaverni, Marco, Ortega Del-Vecchyo, Diego, Du, Lianming, Zhang, Wenping, Zhang, Zhihe, Xing, Jinchuan, Vilà, Carles, Marques-Bonet, Tomas, Godinho, Raquel, Yue, Bisong, Wayne, Robert K.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (CSHL Press) 01.02.2016; Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
• Subjects: Animals; Bayes Theorem; Canis lupus; DNA, Mitochondrial - genetics; Dogs - genetics; Female; Genome; Genètica animal; Hybridization, Genetic; Male; Markov Chains; Models, Genetic; Phylogeny; Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; Principal Component Analysis; Sequence Analysis, DNA; Wolves - genetics

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 branch...