| the morphology of the mandibular coronoid process does not indicate that canis lupus chanco is the progenitor to dogs. | the domestication of wolves is currently under debate. where, when and from which wolf sub-species dogs originated are being investigated both by osteoarchaeologists and geneticists. while dna research is rapidly becoming more active and popular, morphological methods have been the gold standard in the past. but even today morphological details are routinely employed to discern archaeological wolves from dogs. one such morphological similarity between canis lupus chanco and dogs was published in ... | 2017 | 27340333 |
| detecting hybridization between iranian wild wolf (canis lupus pallipes) and free-ranging domestic dog (canis familiaris) by analysis of microsatellite markers. | the genetic threat due to hybridization with free-ranging dogs is one major concern in wolf conservation. the identification of hybrids and extent of hybridization is important in the conservation and management of wolf populations. genetic variation was analyzed at 15 unlinked loci in 28 dogs, 28 wolves, four known hybrids, two black wolves, and one dog with abnormal traits in iran. pritchard's model, multivariate ordination by principal component analysis and neighbor joining clustering were u ... | 2013 | 23317363 |
| the cryptic african wolf: canis aureus lupaster is not a golden jackal and is not endemic to egypt. | the egyptian jackal (canis aureus lupaster) has hitherto been considered a large, rare subspecies of the golden jackal (c. aureus). it has maintained its taxonomical status to date, despite studies demonstrating morphological similarities to the grey wolf (c. lupus). we have analyzed 2055 bp of mitochondrial dna from c. a. lupaster and investigated the similarity to c. aureus and c. lupus. through phylogenetic comparison with all wild wolf-like canids (based on 726 bp of the cytochrome b gene) w ... | 2011 | 21298107 |
| estimation of population divergence times from non-overlapping genomic sequences: examples from dogs and wolves. | despite recent technological advances in dna sequencing, incomplete coverage remains to be an issue in population genomics, in particular for studies that include ancient samples. here, we describe an approach to estimate population divergence times for non-overlapping sequence data that is based on probabilities of different genealogical topologies under a structured coalescent model. we show that the approach can be adapted to accommodate common problems such as sequencing errors and postmorte ... | 2010 | 21177316 |
| heterochromatin composition and nucleolus organizer activity in four canid species. | sequential staining with a counterstain-contrasted fluorescent banding technique (chromomycin a3-distamycin a-dapi) revealed the occurrence of distamycin a-4,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (da-dapi) staining heterochromatin in the centromeric regions of chromosomes 33, 36, 37, and 38 in the wolf (canis lupus pallipes) and of chromosomes 13, 16, and 23 in the blue fox (alopex lagopus). the red fox (vulpes vulpes) lacked such regions. staining with dapi--actinomycin d produced a qfh-type banding patte ... | 1986 | 3801970 |