The Japanese wolf is most closely related to modern dogs and its ancestral genome has been widely inherited by dogs throughout East Eurasia
J. Gojobori, N. Arakawa, X. Xiayire, Y. Matsumoto, S. Matsumura, H. Hongo, N. Ishiguro, Y. Terai
This study analyzes the genomes of Japanese wolves and dogs to show that Japanese wolves are closely related to modern dogs and contributed ancestry to East Eurasian dogs.
bioRxiv · Oct 10, 2021Evolutionary Biology