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 America1, 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...

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Main Authors: Perri, AR, Mitchell, KJ, Mouton, A, Álvarez-Carretero, S, Hulme-Beaman, A, Haile, J, Jamieson, A, Meachen, J, Lin, AT, Schubert, BW, Ameen, C, Antipina, EE, Bover, P, Brace, S, Carmagnini, A, Carøe, C, Samaniego Castruita, JA, Chatters, JC, Dobney, K, dos Reis, M, Evin, A, Gaubert, P, Gopalakrishnan, S, Gower, G, Heiniger, H, Helgen, KM, Kapp, J, Kosintsev, PA, Linderholm, A, Ozga, AT, Presslee, S, Salis, AT, Saremi, NF, Shew, C, Skerry, K, Taranenko, DE, Thompson, M, Sablin, MV, Kuzmin, YV, Collins, MJ, Sinding, M-HS, Gilbert, MTP, Stone, AC, Shapiro, B, Van Valkenburgh, B, Wayne, RK, Larson, G, Cooper, A, Frantz, LAF
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Nature Research 2021