Link: The variable genetic mixes of the coywolf
From Roland Kays in The Conversation: “Yes, eastern coyotes are hybrids, but the ‘coywolf’ is not a thing”.
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Dog domestication complexity
Ewen Callaway covers the active area of dog domestication research in a new Nature News article (“Dog genetics spur scientific spat”) Callaway:dog:2013.
Was the first dog from the Altaian Upper Paleolithic?
A new paper by Anna Druzhkova and colleagues examines the ancient mtDNA sequence of a putative 33,000-year-old dog from Razboinichya Cave in the Altai region...
Mailbag: Dogs in Chauvet
Love your blog, which I stumbled across while googling for more detail on the wolf tracks in Chauvet Cave. Have been fascinated by this stuff since 1st grad...
Wolves in coyotes' clothing
Razib’s post on the genetics of canids (“A map of charismatic canid genomic variation”) does a nice summary of a recent paper in Genome Research, by vonHoldt...
Mailbag: Coyote attacks
Sorry to interrupt the 'all Anthropoid all the time' theme going on lately but I want to get back to a subject we've discussed before (well kind of).
Coywolves
Another case of large mammal evolution by introgressive hybridization:
Adaptive introgression of coat color in wolves
Mark Derr of the NY Times reports on a new study showing that black North American wolves got their melanism from dogs: