Ancient DNA from the Asiatic Wild Dog (<i>Cuon alpinus</i>) from Europe.

ABSTRACT: The Asiatic wild dog (Cuon alpinus), restricted today largely to South and Southeast Asia, was widespread throughout Eurasia and even reached North America during the Pleistocene. Like many other species, it suffered from a huge range loss towards the end of the Pleistocene and went extinct in most of its former distribution. The fossil record of the dhole is scattered and the identification of fossils can be complicated by an overlap in size and a high morphological similarity between dholes and other canid species. We generated almost complete mitochondrial genomes for six putative dhole fossils from Europe. By using three lines of evidence, i.e., the number of reads mapping to various canid mitochondrial genomes, the evaluation and quantification of the mapping evenness along the

SUBMITTER: Taron UH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7911384 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature