Museums and other natural history collections (NHC) worldwide house millions of
specimens. With the advent of molecular genetic approaches these collections have …

Ancient DNA analyses of historical, archaeological and paleontological remains can
contribute important information for the conservation of populations and species that cannot …

Fossil, archaeological, and morphometric data suggest that indigenous red foxes in North
America were derived from vicariance in two disjunct refugia during the last glaciation: one …

Widely distributed taxa provide an opportunity to compare biogeographic responses to
climatic fluctuations on multiple continents and to investigate speciation. We conducted the …

Red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) are native to boreal and western montane portions of North
America but their origins are unknown in many lowland areas of the United States. Red …

Abstract The foxes at Novosibirsk, Russia, are the only population of domesticated foxes in
the world. These domesticated foxes originated from farm-bred silver foxes (Vulpes vulpes) …

Introduced species can threaten native taxa in multiple ways, including competition and
hybridization, which can reduce fitness, alter ecological niches or swamp native genomes …

Most native red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) in the western contiguous United States appear to be
climatically restricted to colder regions in the major mountain ranges and, in some areas …

Recent evidence from across the southeastern United States indicating high predation rates
by coyotes (Canis latrans) on white‐tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) fawns has led …

Invasive mammalian carnivores contribute disproportionately to declines in global
biodiversity. In California, nonnative red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) have significantly impacted …