Department of Biology, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, UK.
BMC Biol. 2010 Apr 21;8:46. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-46.
Population genetic analyses of Eurasian wolves published recently in BMC Evolutionary Biology suggest that a major genetic turnover took place in Eurasian wolves after the Pleistocene. These results add to the growing evidence that large mammal species surviving the late Pleistocene extinctions nevertheless lost a large share of their genetic diversity.
最近发表在《BMC 进化生物学》上的欧亚狼种群遗传学分析表明,更新世后,欧亚狼发生了重大的遗传更替。这些结果进一步证明,尽管大型哺乳动物物种在更新世末期灭绝后幸存下来,但它们失去了大量的遗传多样性。