Genomic analyses of the extinct Sardinian dhole (Cynotherium sardous) reaveal its evolutionary history
Marta Maria Ciucani, Julie Kragmose Jensen, Mikkel‐Holger S. Sinding, Oliver Smith, Saverio Bartolini Lucenti, Erika Rosengren, Lorenzo Rook, Caterinella Tuveri, Marisa Arca, Enrico Cappellini, Marco Galaverni, Ettore Randi, Chunxue Guo, Guojie Zhang, Thomas Sicheritz‐Pontén, , Shyam Gopalakrishnan
The paper sequenced the genome of an extinct Sardinian dhole to determine its evolutionary history and phylogenetic position, finding it diverged from Asian dholes and experienced gene flow before isolation.
Current Biology · Oct 19, 2021Peer-reviewedGenomics