Perri A. R., Mitchell K. J., Mouton A., Alvarez-Carretero S., Hulme-Beaman A., Haile J., Jamieson A., Meachen J., Lin A. D. T., Schubert B. W., Ameen C., Antipina E. E., Bover P., Brace S., Carmagnini A., Caroe C., Castruita J. S. A., Chatters J. C., Dobney K., dos Reis M., Evin A., Gaubert Philippe, Gopalakrishnan S., Gower G., Heiniger H., Helgen K. M., Kapp J., Kosintsev P. A., Linderholm A., Ozga A. T., Presslee S., Salis A. T., Saremi N. F., Shew C., Skerry K., Taranenko D. E., Thompson M., Sablin M. V., Kuzmin Y. V., Collins M. J., Sinding M. H. S., Gilbert M. T. P., Stone A. C., Shapiro B., Van Valkenburgh B., Wayne R. K., Larson G., Cooper A., Frantz L. A. F. (2021). Dire wolves were the last of an ancient New World canid lineage. Nature, 591 (7848), 87-91. ISSN 0028-0836.
Titre du document
Dire wolves were the last of an ancient New World canid lineage
Année de publication
2021
Auteurs
Perri A. R., Mitchell K. J., Mouton A., Alvarez-Carretero S., Hulme-Beaman A., Haile J., Jamieson A., Meachen J., Lin A. D. T., Schubert B. W., Ameen C., Antipina E. E., Bover P., Brace S., Carmagnini A., Caroe C., Castruita J. S. A., Chatters J. C., Dobney K., dos Reis M., Evin A., Gaubert Philippe, Gopalakrishnan S., Gower G., Heiniger H., Helgen K. M., Kapp J., Kosintsev P. A., Linderholm A., Ozga A. T., Presslee S., Salis A. T., Saremi N. F., Shew C., Skerry K., Taranenko D. E., Thompson M., Sablin M. V., Kuzmin Y. V., Collins M. J., Sinding M. H. S., Gilbert M. T. P., Stone A. C., Shapiro B., Van Valkenburgh B., Wayne R. K., Larson G., Cooper A., Frantz L. A. F.
Source
Nature, 2021,
591 (7848), 87-91 ISSN 0028-0836
Dire wolves are considered to be one of the most common and widespread large carnivores in Pleistocene America(1), 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 living canids around 5.7 million years ago. In contrast to numerous examples of hybridization across Canidae(2,3), there is no evidence for gene flow between dire wolves and either North American grey wolves or coyotes. This suggests that dire wolves evolved in isolation from the Pleistocene ancestors of these species. Our results also support an early New World origin of dire wolves, while the ancestors of grey wolves, coyotes and dholes evolved in Eurasia and colonized North America only relatively recently. Dire wolves split from living canids around 5.7 million years ago and originated in the New World isolated from the ancestors of grey wolves and coyotes, which evolved in Eurasia and colonized North America only relatively recently.
Plan de classement
Sciences du monde animal [080]
Description Géographique
EUROPE ; ASIE ; AMERIQUE DU NORD
Localisation
Fonds IRD [F B010080600]
Identifiant IRD
fdi:010080600
