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Dire wolves were the last of an ancient New World canid lineage
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Dire wolves are considered to be one of the most common and widespread large carnivores in Pleistocene America1, yet relatively little is known about their evolution or extinction. Here, to reconstruct the evolutionary history of dire wolves, we sequenced five genomes from sub-fossil remains dating from 13,000 to more than 50,000 years ago. Our results indicate that although they were similar morphologically to the extant grey wolf, dire wolves were a highly divergent lineage that split from ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Nature Research
- Journal:
- Nature More from this journal
- Volume:
- 591
- Issue:
- 2021
- Pages:
- 87-91
- Publication date:
- 2021-01-13
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-11-12
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- EISSN:
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1476-4687
- ISSN:
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0028-0836
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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1156516
- Local pid:
- pubs:1156516
- Deposit date:
- 2021-01-15
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- Copyright holder:
- Perri et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2021
- Rights statement:
- © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited 2021
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available from Springer Nature at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-03082-x
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