Publications

osteological and genetic analysis of the extinct ezo wolf (canis lupus hattai) from hokkaido island, japan.	the ezo wolf (canis lupus hattai kishida, 1931 ) is an extinct subspecies that inhabited hokkaido in japan until the middle of the meiji period. because there are very few preserved skeletons, no osteological and/or genetic analyses of the ezo wolf have been conducted. in this study, 20 cranial and eight mandibular characters were measured on ezo wolf skeletons, and mitochondrial dna (mtdna) was analyzed to assess genetic relationships between the ezo wolf and other wolf lineages, including the ...	2010	20377350
reconstructing the colonization history of lost wolf lineages by the analysis of the mitochondrial genome.	the grey wolves (canis lupus) originally inhabited major parts of the northern hemisphere, but many local populations became extinct. two lineages of wolves in japan, namely, japanese or honshu (c. l. hodophilax) and ezo or hokkaido (c. l. hattai) wolves, rapidly went extinct between 100 and 120years ago. here we analyse the complete mitochondrial genome sequences from ancient specimens and reconstruct the colonization history of the two extinct subspecies. we show a unique status of japanese wo ...	2014	25132126