The African wolf is a missing link in the wolf-like canid phylogeny
Eli K. Rueness, Pål Trosvik, Anagaw Atickem, Claudio Sillero-Zubiri, Emiliano Trucchi
The paper presents genomic data for the African wolf, showing it is a distinct taxon more closely related to the Holarctic grey wolf than to the golden jackal.
bioRxiv · Apr 23, 2015 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology