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Description: Phylogenetic tree for wolves (Canis lupus) based on the mitochondrial DNA for wolves from Ersmark 2016. Clades are denoted I–XIX. Key regions/haplotypes are indicated and new haplotypes are displayed in bold. Late Pleistocene samples are represented by the numbers 1–10.
Title: Phylogenetic tree for wolves
Credit: From the Past to the Present: Wolf Phylogeography and Demographic History Based on the Mitochondrial Control Region. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2016.00134 (Open Access)
Author: Erik Ersmark, Cornelya F.C.Klütsch, Yvonne L. Chan, Mikkel-Holger S. Sinding, Steven R. Fain, Natalia A. Illarionova, Mattias Oskarsson, Mathias Uhlén, Ya-ping Zhang, Love Dalén and Peter Savolainen
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