Diversity lost: are all Holarctic large mammal species just relict populations?

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 neve...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Hofreiter, Michael, Barnes, Ian
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Commentary
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2858106/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20409351
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-8-46
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Sumario: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

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