Scientists studying ancient DNA from the Japanese wolf say they may have solved the long-standing mystery of where it came from: a vanished population of gray wolves in East Asia that also gave rise to modern dogs. ScienceMagArchives
To find out, Yohey Terai, an evolutionary biologist at Graduate University for Advanced Studies in Hayama, Japan,
where people used to place them for protection. The researchers also sequenced the genomes of 11 Japanese dogs, including popular breeds like Yet when Terai and his colleagues constructed evolutionary trees, they found that the branch containing thethan to any other animal. “It’s a sister relationship,” Terai says.Ludwig Maximilian
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