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Extended survival of Pleistocene Siberian wolves into the early 20th century on the island of Honshu.


ABSTRACT: The Japanese or Honsh? wolf was one the most distinct gray wolf subspecies due to its small stature and endemicity to the islands of Honsh?, Shikoku, and Ky?sh?. Long revered as a guardian of farmers and travellers, it was persecuted from the 17th century following a rabies epidemic, which led to its extinction in the early 20th century. To better understand its evolutionary history, we sequenced the nuclear genome of a 19th century Honsh? wolf specimen to an average depth of coverage of 3.7?. We find Honsh? wolves were closely related to a lineage of Siberian wolves that were previously believed to have gone extinct in the Late Pleistocene, thereby extending the survival of this ancient lineage until the early 20th century. We also detected significant gene flow between Japanese dogs and the Honsh? wolf, corroborating previous reports on Honsh? wolf dog interbreeding.

SUBMITTER: Niemann J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7753132 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Extended survival of Pleistocene Siberian wolves into the early 20th century on the island of Honshū.

Niemann Jonas J   Gopalakrishnan Shyam S   Yamaguchi Nobuyuki N   Ramos-Madrigal Jazmín J   Wales Nathan N   Gilbert M Thomas P MTP   Sinding Mikkel-Holger S MS  

iScience 20201208 1


The Japanese or Honshū wolf was one the most distinct gray wolf subspecies due to its small stature and endemicity to the islands of Honshū, Shikoku, and Kyūshū. Long revered as a guardian of farmers and travellers, it was persecuted from the 17th century following a rabies epidemic, which led to its extinction in the early 20th century. To better understand its evolutionary history, we sequenced the nuclear genome of a 19th century Honshū wolf specimen to an average depth of coverage of 3.7✕. W  ...[more]

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