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Loss of Mitochondrial Genetic Diversity despite Population Growth: The Legacy of Past Wolf Population Declines.
Genes - 26 Dec 2022
Salado Isabel, Preick Michaela, Lupiáñez-Corpas Natividad, Fernández-Gil Alberto, Vilà Carles, Hofreiter Michael, Leonard Jennifer A
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Gray wolves (Canis lupus) in the Iberian Peninsula declined substantially in both range and population size in the last few centuries due to human persecution and habitat fragmentation. However, unlike many other western European populations, gray wolves never went extinct in Iberia. Since the minimum number was recorded around 1970, their numbers have significantly increased and then stabilized in recent...
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