Modern wolves trace their origin to a late Pleistocene expansion from Beringia
L. Loog, O. Thalmann, M.-H. S. Sinding, V. J. Schuenemann, A. Perri, M. Germonpre, H. Bocherens, K. E. Witt, J. A. Samaniego Castruita, M. S. Velasco, I. K. C. Lundstrom, N. Wales, G. Sonet, L. Frantz, H. Schroeder, , A. Manica
This study traces the origin of modern wolves to a late Pleistocene expansion from Beringia, using ancient mitochondrial genomes and spatial-temporal modeling.
bioRxiv · Jul 18, 2018Evolutionary Biology