Range-wide phylogeography of the golden jackals (Canis aureus) reveals multiple sources of recent spatial expansion and admixture with dogs at the expansion front

M Stefanović, W Bogdanowicz, R Adavoudi… - Biological …, 2024 - Elsevier
The current rapid climate change and human-induced alteration of landscapes and animal
communities have led to range expansions in numerous species, raising concerns about …

[HTML][HTML] Mitochondrial genetic diversity and phylogenetic relationships of Echinococcus multilocularis in Europe

A Santoro, F Santolamazza, SM Cacciò… - International journal for …, 2024 - Elsevier
The cestode Echinococcus multilocularis is the causative agent of alveolar echinococcosis,
a fatal zoonotic parasitic disease of the northern hemisphere. Red foxes are the main …

How glaciation impacted evolutionary history and contemporary genetic diversity of flora and fauna in the British Isles

S Fenton, KR Elmer, CW Bean… - Scottish Geographical …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Ice coverage not only affects the climate and landscape of geographical regions but has
impacted species composition, the fragmentation and isolation of populations, and the …

Genotyping‐by‐sequencing for biogeography

F Vaux, L Dutoit, CI Fraser… - Journal of Biogeography, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Genotyping‐by‐sequencing (GBS) and similar reduced‐representation sequencing
methods, such as restriction site‐associated DNA sequencing (RADseq), have been …

Reconstructing the complex colonisation histories of lizards across Mediterranean archipelagos

S Sherpa, D Salvi, I Silva‐Rocha… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Aim The Mediterranean Basin is a global biodiversity hotspot and has one of the
longest histories of human–biota interactions. Islands host a large fraction of Mediterranean …

Genome‐wide SNP assessment of contemporary European red deer genetic structure highlights the distinction of peripheral populations and the main admixture …

J Carranza, J Pérez‐González, G Anaya… - Molecular …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Genome‐wide technologies open up new possibilities to clarify questions on genetic
structure and phylogeographic history of taxa previously studied with microsatellite loci and …

A reduced SNP panel to trace gene flow across southern European wolf populations and detect hybridization with other Canis taxa

AV Stronen, F Mattucci, E Fabbri, M Galaverni… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Intra-and inter-specific gene flow are natural evolutionary processes. However, human-
induced hybridization is a global conservation concern across taxa, and the development of …

Wolf genetic diversity compared across Europe using the yardstick method

M Jan, AV Stronen, B Boljte, R Černe, Đ Huber… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Integrating data across studies with traditional microsatellite genetic markers requires
careful calibration and represents an obstacle for investigation of wide-ranging species …

North African fox genomes show signatures of repeated introgression and adaptation to life in deserts

J L. Rocha, P Silva, N Santos, M Nakamura… - Nature ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
Elucidating the evolutionary process of animal adaptation to deserts is key to understanding
adaptive responses to climate change. Here we generated 82 individual whole genomes of …

Heterochronous mitogenomes shed light on the Holocene history of the Scandinavian brown bear

IS Feinauer, E Lord, J von Seth, G Xenikoudakis… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Following glacial retreat after the last ice age, brown bears (Ursus arctos) recolonised
Scandinavia. Previous research based on mitochondrial markers suggests that bears …