Ancient DNA from the Asiatic Wild Dog (Cuon alpinus) from Europe
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00094862%3A_____%2F21%3AN0000152" target="_blank" >RIV/00094862:_____/21:N0000152 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/genes12020144" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.3390/genes12020144</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genes12020144" target="_blank" >10.3390/genes12020144</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Ancient DNA from the Asiatic Wild Dog (Cuon alpinus) from Europe
Original language description
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 reference genomes and phylogenetic analysis, we were able to identify two out of six samples as dhole, whereas four samples represent wolf fossils. This highlights the contribution genetic data can make when trying to identify the species affiliation of fossil specimens. The ancient dhole sequences are highly divergent when compared to modern dhole sequences, but the scarcity of dhole data for comparison impedes a more extensive analysis.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10603 - Genetics and heredity (medical genetics to be 3)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Genes
ISSN
2073-4425
e-ISSN
2073-4425
Volume of the periodical
12
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2 (144)
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
19
Pages from-to
1-19
UT code for WoS article
000622597700001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85100195712