Sentences with phrase «eurasian wolf»
A 2015 study in Genome Research, for example, estimated that 25 percent of modern Eurasian wolf DNA actually comes from interbreeding with domesticated dogs.
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You really think that a Chihauhua is indistinguishable from the Eurasian Wolf?
A well recorded, understood, DNA mapped and uncontroversial case of evolution of one sub-species — Canis lupus lupus, the Eurasian wolf, into another, Canis lupus familiaris, the domestic dog.
A well recorded, understood, DNA mapped and uncontroversial case of the evolution of one species — Canis lupus lupus, the Eurasian wolf, into another, Canis lupus familiaris, the domestic dog.
Fido's cousins may be Eurasian wolves, but new findings complicate the details of domestication
The researchers compared the genomes in these individuals to those from pure coyotes and Eurasian wolves.
Not exact matches
Larson takes the findings to suggest that some European wolf gave rise to west Eurasian domestic dogs whereas some Asian wolf gave rise to east Asian domestic dogs.
Since the year 2000, the Eurasian grey wolf, Canis lupus lupus, has spread across Germany.
«We were surprised by the results, because we expected a substantial fraction of the genome of the red wolf and eastern wolf, maybe 20 % to 30 %, would be derived from a long - distinct species, much as about 1 % to 4 % of [human] Eurasian genomes derive from Neanderthals,» said Wayne.
The researchers found similarities in the genetic sequences that suggest that «ancient American and Eurasian domestic dogs share a common origin from Old World gray wolves.»
Populations of big carnivores such as brown bears, Eurasian lynx, grey wolves and wolverines are stable or increasing in a substantial part of Europe.
Despite the evidence of hybridisation among Eurasian grey wolves, the wolf populations have remained genetically distinct from dogs, suggesting that such cross-breeding does not diminish distinctiveness of the wolf gene pool if it occurs at low levels.
The international study showed that around 60 per cent of Eurasian grey wolf genomes carried small blocks of the DNA of domestic dogs, suggesting that wolves cross-bred with dogs in past generations.