Updating the Bibliography of Interbreeding among Canis in North America

BM vonHoldt, ML Aardema - Journal of Heredity, 2020 - academic.oup.com
This bibliography provides a collection of references that documents the evolution of studies
evidencing interbreeding among Canis species in North America. Over the past several …

[HTML][HTML] Cooperative communication with humans evolved to emerge early in domestic dogs

H Salomons, KCM Smith, M Callahan-Beckel… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Although we know that dogs evolved from wolves, it remains unclear how domestication
affected dog cognition. One hypothesis suggests dog domestication altered social …

Pleistocene origins, western ghost lineages, and the emerging phylogeographic history of the red wolf and coyote

BN Sacks, KJ Mitchell, CB Quinn… - Molecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The red wolf (Canis rufus) of the eastern US was driven to near‐extinction by colonial‐era
persecution and habitat conversion, which facilitated coyote (C. latrans) range expansion …

Coyotes in New York City carry variable genomic dog ancestry and influence their interactions with humans

A Caragiulo, SJ Gaughran, N Duncan, C Nagy… - Genes, 2022 - mdpi.com
Coyotes are ubiquitous on the North American landscape as a result of their recent
expansion across the continent. They have been documented in the heart of some of the …

Genomes of endangered great hammerhead and shortfin mako sharks reveal historic population declines and high levels of inbreeding in great hammerhead

MJ Stanhope, KM Ceres, Q Sun, M Wang, JD Zehr… - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
Despite increasing threats of extinction to Elasmobranchii (sharks and rays), whole genome-
based conservation insights are lacking. Here, we present chromosome-level genome …

Persistence and expansion of cryptic endangered red wolf genomic ancestry along the American Gulf coast

BM vonHoldt, KE Brzeski, ML Aardema… - Molecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Admixture and introgression play a critical role in adaptation and genetic rescue that has
only recently gained a deeper appreciation. Here, we explored the geographical and …

Reviving ghost alleles: Genetically admixed coyotes along the American Gulf Coast are critical for saving the endangered red wolf

BM VonHoldt, JW Hinton, AC Shutt, SM Murphy… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
The last known red wolves were captured in southwestern Louisiana and eastern Texas in
1980 to establish a captive breeding population. Before their extirpation, gene flow with …

Interface of Human/Wildlife Interactions: An Example of a Bold Coyote (Canis latrans) in Atlanta, GA, USA

CB Mowry, LA Wilson, BM VonHoldt - Diversity, 2021 - mdpi.com
There is arguably no other North American species that better illustrates the complexities of
the human-wildlife interface than the coyote. In this study, a melanistic coyote in metropolitan …

A sliver of the past: The decimation of the genetic diversity of the Mexican wolf

UH Taron, I Salado, M Escobar‐Rodríguez… - Molecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The endangered Mexican wolf (Canis lupus baileyi) is known to carry exceedingly
low levels of genetic diversity. This could be (i) the result of long‐term evolutionary patterns …

Genomic analysis of population history for Hawaiian monk seals

S Hauser, S Robinson, E Latch - Endangered Species Research, 2024 - int-res.com
The Hawaiian monk seal Neomonachus schauinslandi, one of the world's most endangered
pinnipeds, has faced decades of declines and has been the focus of intensive conservation …