The extinct Sicilian wolf shows a complex history of isolation and admixture with ancient dogs
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F23%3A10472320" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/23:10472320 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/60460709:41340/23:97373
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=-7vVwlqGhQ" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=-7vVwlqGhQ</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.107307" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.isci.2023.107307</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The extinct Sicilian wolf shows a complex history of isolation and admixture with ancient dogs
Original language description
The Sicilian wolf remained isolated in Sicily from the end of the Pleistocene until its extermination in the 1930s-1960s. Given its long-term isolation on the island and distinctive morphology, the genetic origin of the Sicilian wolf remains debated. We sequenced four nuclear genomes and five mitogenomes from the seven existing museum specimens to investigate the Sicilian wolf ancestry, rela-tionships with extant and extinct wolves and dogs, and diversity. Our results show that the Sicilian wolf is most closely related to the Italian wolf but carries ancestry from a lineage related to European Eneolithic and Bronze Age dogs. The average nucleotide diversity of the Sicilian wolf was half of the Italian wolf, with 37-50% of its genome contained in runs of homozygosity. Overall, we show that, by the time it went extinct, the Sicilian wolf had high inbreeding and low-genetic diversity, consistent with a population in an insular environment.
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
10613 - Zoology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
iScience
ISSN
2589-0042
e-ISSN
2589-0042
Volume of the periodical
26
Issue of the periodical within the volume
8
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
23
Pages from-to
107307
UT code for WoS article
001053442200001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85165972998