Genetic and morphometric analysis of sixteenth century Canis skull fragments: Implications for historic eastern and gray wolf distribution in North America

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1273-1281

  Rutledge, Linda Y ^a   Bos, Kirsten I ^b   Pearce, Robert J ^c   White, Bradley N ^a  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Museum of Ontario Archaeology   (Canada)

Author keywords

Eastern wolf; Mitochondrial DNA; Morphometrics; Phylogenetics; Precontact North America; Wolf restoration

Indexed keywords

COMMON ANCESTRY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MORPHOMETRY; PHYLOGENETICS; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SKULL; TAXONOMY;

NORTH AMERICA;

CANIDAE; CANIS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS LATRANS; CANIS LUPUS; CANIS LYCAON;

EID: 77953913812     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-009-9957-2     Document Type: Article

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