title: Diversity lost: are all Holarctic large mammal species just relict populations?
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, UK. msh503@york.ac.uk
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hofreiter
authors.forename: Ian
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Barnes
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001110:Arctic Regions; D044822:Biodiversity; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial / Q000235:genetics; D005060:Europe; D005580:Fossils; D005828:Genetics, Population; D008322:Mammals; D009656:North America
chemical_list: D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial
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