Reconstructing the colonization history of lost wolf lineages by the analysis of the mitochondrial genome
Reconstructing the colonization history of lost wolf lineages by the analysis of the mitochondrial genome
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DOI:
10.1016/j.ympev.2014.08.004
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发表时间:
2014-11-01
影响因子:
4.1
通讯作者:
Ishiguro, Naotaka
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作者:
Matsumura, Shuichi;Inoshima, Yasuo;Ishiguro, Naotaka
The grey wolves (Cards lupus) originally inhabited major parts of the Northern hemisphere, but many local populations became extinct. Two lineages of wolves in Japan, namely, Japanese or Honshu (C. I. hodophilax) and Ezo or Hokkaido (C. I. hattai) wolves, rapidly went extinct between 100 and 120 years ago. Here we analyse the complete mitochondrial genome sequences from ancient specimens and reconstruct the colonization history of the two extinct subspecies. We show a unique status of Japanese wolves in wolf phylogeny, suggesting their long time separation from other grey wolf populations. Japanese wolves appeared to have colonized the Japanese archipelago in the Late Pleistocene (ca. 25,000-125,000 years ago). By contrast, Ezo wolves, which are clearly separated from Japanese wolves in phylogeny, are likely to have arrived at Japan relatively recently (