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Differentiation of tundra/taiga and boreal coniferous forest wolves: genetics, coat colour and association with migratory caribou.
Molecular ecology - 1 Oct 2007
Musiani Marco, Leonard Jennifer A, Cluff H Dean, Gates C Cormack, Mariani Stefano, Paquet Paul C, Vilà Carles, Wayne Robert K
Abstract excerpt
The grey wolf has one of the largest historic distributions of any terrestrial mammal and can disperse over great distances across imposing topographic barriers. As a result, geographical distance and physical obstacles to dispersal may not be consequential factors in the evolutionary divergence of wolf populations. However, recent studies suggest ecological features can constrain gene flow. We tested whether...
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