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标题：Extended survival of Pleistocene Siberian wolves into the early 20th century on the island of Honshū
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作者：Jonas Niemann ; Shyam Gopalakrishnan ; Nobuyuki Yamaguchi 等
期刊名称：iScience
印刷版ISSN：2589-0042
出版年度：2021
卷号：24
期号：1
页码：1-25
DOI：10.1016/j.isci.2020.101904
语种：English
出版社：Elsevier
摘要：SummaryThe Japanese or Honshū wolf was one the most distinct gray wolf subspecies due to its small stature and endemicity to the islands of Honshū, Shikoku, and Kyūshū. Long revered as a guardian of farmers and travellers, it was persecuted from the 17th century following a rabies epidemic, which led to its extinction in the early 20th century. To better understand its evolutionary history, we sequenced the nuclear genome of a 19th century Honshū wolf specimen to an average depth of coverage of 3.7✕. We find Honshū wolves were closely related to a lineage of Siberian wolves that were previously believed to have gone extinct in the Late Pleistocene, thereby extending the survival of this ancient lineage until the early 20th century. We also detected significant gene flow between Japanese dogs and the Honshū wolf, corroborating previous reports on Honshū wolf dog interbreeding.Graphical AbstractDisplay OmittedHighlights•Generated 3.7✕ nuclear genome of the extinct Honshu wolf•The Honshū wolf belonged to the lineage of Siberian Pleistocene wolves•There was gene flow between Honshū wolves and Japanese dogsBiological Sciences; Genetics; Phylogenetics; Evolutionary Biology