Genetic evidence for a recent origin by hybridization of red wolves.

doi:10.1046/j.1365-294x.1999.00514.x

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Genetic evidence for a recent origin by hybridization of red wolves.

Molecular ecology - 1 Jan 1999

Reich D E, Wayne R K, Goldstein D B

Abstract excerpt

Genetic data suggest that red wolves (Canis rufus) resulted from a hybridization between coyotes (C. latrans) and grey wolves (C. lupus). The data of the hybridization, however, is uncertain. According to one hypothesis, the two species came into contact as coyotes increased their geographical ra...

Topics

Animals
Carnivora
Genetics, Population
Hybridization, Genetic
Microsatellite Repeats
Mutation
Wolves

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