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Editorial
. 2010 Apr 21:8:46.
doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-46.

Diversity lost: are all Holarctic large mammal species just relict populations?

Michael Hofreiter  1 , Ian Barnes
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Editorial

Diversity lost: are all Holarctic large mammal species just relict populations?

Michael Hofreiter et al. BMC Biol. .

Abstract

Population genetic analyses of Eurasian wolves published recently in BMC Evolutionary Biology suggest that a major genetic turnover took place in Eurasian wolves after the Pleistocene. These results add to the growing evidence that large mammal species surviving the late Pleistocene extinctions nevertheless lost a large share of their genetic diversity.

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Howling wolf. A recent population genetic study on Eurasian wolves showed that they experienced a major turnover in genetic diversity during the Holocene. Picture courtesy of Bob Wayne.
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