Genome-wide evidence reveals that African and Eurasian golden jackals are distinct species

Current Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 2158-2165

  Koepfli, Klaus Peter ^a,b   Pollinger, John ^c   Godinho, Raquel ^d,e,q   Robinson, Jacqueline ^c   Lea, Amanda ^f   Hendricks, Sarah ^g   Schweizer, Rena M ^c   Thalmann, Olaf ^h,i   Silva, Pedro ^d,q   Fan, Zhenxin ^j   Yurchenko, Andrey A ^b   Dobrynin, Pavel ^b   Makunin, Alexey ^b   Cahill, James A ^k   Shapiro, Beth ^k   Álvares, Francisco ^d,q   Brito, José C ^d,q   Geffen, Eli ^l   Leonard, Jennifer A ^m   Helgen, Kristofer M ⁿ   Johnson, Warren E ^o   O'Brien, Stephen J ^b,p   Van Valkenburgh, Blaire ^c   Wayne, Robert K ^c   more..

^a SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

^e UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^f DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^j SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^l TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^m DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

ⁿ DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^o SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHUS; CANIDAE; CANIS AUREUS; CANIS LUPUS;

AFRICA; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOME; JACKAL; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; WOLF;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENOME; JACKALS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WOLVES;

EID: 84939572419     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: 18790445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.06.060     Document Type: Article

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