Abstract
Population genetic analyses of Eurasian wolves published recently in BMC Evolutionary Biology suggest that a major genetic turnover took place in Eurasian wolves after the Pleistocene. These results add to the growing evidence that large mammal species surviving the late Pleistocene extinctions nevertheless lost a large share of their genetic diversity.See research article http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/10/104
Highlights
*Correspondence: msh503@york.ac.uk 1Department of Biology, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, UK Full list of author information is available at the end of the article looking for a question, latterly with some significant issues about data reproducibility, ancient DNA seems more recently to have found itself very much at home in facilitating comparisons between current and past populations, with a timescale of around the past 50,000 to 100,000 years
Population genetic analyses of Eurasian wolves published recently in BMC Evolutionary Biology suggest that a major genetic turnover took place in Eurasian wolves after the Pleistocene
Fossils are prone to the vagaries of taphonomy, with few individuals even entering the record, and only a small fraction of those surviving and being recovered and analyzed
Summary
*Correspondence: msh503@york.ac.uk 1Department of Biology, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, UK Full list of author information is available at the end of the article looking for a question, latterly with some significant issues about data reproducibility, ancient DNA seems more recently to have found itself very much at home in facilitating comparisons between current and past populations, with a timescale of around the past 50,000 to 100,000 years. One question that ancient DNA can readily address is the extent to which species surviving the Late Pleistocene extinctions experienced population loss or replacement.
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