Sentences with phrase «gray fox lineage»

The ancient gray fox lineage that gave rise to all island foxes appears to be unsampled and may be rare or extinct in the extant gray fox populations.

However, the fact that we detected only 13 — 14 base pair substitutions between the closest mainland gray fox lineage and the northern / southern island fox ancestor suggests that the date of divergence for the island fox clade could be more recent than 9200 years ago.

Not exact matches

A broad scale analysis of the evolutionary relationships of Urocyon lineages should be conducted because in this study, we found that eastern and western gray fox populations are more deeply diverged than the two currently recognized species of California Urocyon (S2 Fig.).