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2. Time domain graph-based anomaly detection approach applied to a real industrial problem
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Alvarenga, Wagner J., Campos, Felipe V., Costa, Alexsander C.A.A., Salis, Turibio T., Magalhães, Eduardo, Torres, Luiz C.B., and Braga, Antonio P.
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- 2022
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3. Dire wolves were the last of an ancient New World canid lineage
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Perri, Angela R., Mitchell, Kieren J., Mouton, Alice, Álvarez-Carretero, Sandra, Hulme-Beaman, Ardern, Haile, James, Jamieson, Alexandra, Meachen, Julie, Lin, Audrey T., Schubert, Blaine W., Ameen, Carly, Antipina, Ekaterina E., Bover, Pere, Brace, Selina, Carmagnini, Alberto, Carøe, Christian, Samaniego Castruita, Jose A., Chatters, James C., Dobney, Keith, dos Reis, Mario, Evin, Allowen, Gaubert, Philippe, Gopalakrishnan, Shyam, Gower, Graham, Heiniger, Holly, Helgen, Kristofer M., Kapp, Josh, Kosintsev, Pavel A., Linderholm, Anna, Ozga, Andrew T., Presslee, Samantha, Salis, Alexander T., Saremi, Nedda F., Shew, Colin, Skerry, Katherine, Taranenko, Dmitry E., Thompson, Mary, Sablin, Mikhail V., Kuzmin, Yaroslav V., Collins, Matthew J., Sinding, Mikkel-Holger S., Gilbert, M. Thomas P., Stone, Anne C., Shapiro, Beth, Van Valkenburgh, Blaire, Wayne, Robert K., Larson, Greger, Cooper, Alan, and Frantz, Laurent A. F.
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- 2021
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4. Prediction of Mechanical Properties of Steel Tubes Using a Machine Learning Approach
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Carneiro, Marcelo V., Salis, Turíbio T., Almeida, Gustavo M., and Braga, Antonio P.
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- 2021
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5. Widespread male sex bias in mammal fossil and museum collections
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Gower, Graham, Fenderson, Lindsey E., Salis, Alexander T., Helgen, Kristofer M., van Loenen, Ayla L., Heiniger, Holly, Hofman-Kamińska, Emilia, Kowalczyk, Rafał, Mitchell, Kieren J., Llamas, Bastien, and Cooper, Alan
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- 2019
6. Using ancient DNA to quantify losses of genetic and species diversity in seabirds: a case study of Pterodroma petrels from a Pacific island
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Lombal, Anicee J., Salis, Alexander T., Mitchell, Kieren J., Tennyson, Alan J. D., Shepherd, Lara D., Worthy, Trevor H., Woehler, Eric J., Austin, Jeremy J., and Burridge, Christopher P.
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- 2020
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7. Phylogeny of the microcormorants, with the description of a new genus.
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Kennedy, Martyn, Salis, Alexander T, Seneviratne, Sampath S, Rathnayake, Dilini, Nupen, Lisa J, Ryan, Peter G, Volponi, Stefano, Lubbe, Pascale, Rawlence, Nicolas J, and Spencer, Hamish G
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The aptly named microcormorants (currently placed in the genus Microcarbo) form a morphologically diminutive and distinct clade sister to all other living cormorants and shags. However, the relationships within Microcarbo are largely speculative. Sequence data resolve these relationships unambiguously, with our phylogeny suggesting that the microcormorants separated from the other cormorants ~16 Mya and showing that the two African species [the reed (or long-tailed) cormorant, Microcarbo africanus , and the crowned cormorant, Microcarbo coronatus ] are closely related sister taxa, forming a clade that diverged from the other microcormorants ~12 Mya. The deep split between the African microcormorants and the others is considerably older than many well-recognized generic splits within the cormorants (e.g. Leucocarbo and Phalacrocorax). Thus, we suggest that the African microcormorants warrant their own genus, and we erect Afrocarbo , with type species Pelecanus africanus. Within the reduced Microcarbo , we estimate that the little pied cormorant (Microcarbo melanoleucos of Australasia) separated from the sister pair of the Javanese and pygmy cormorants (respectively, Microcarbo niger from south/southeast Asia and Microcarbo pygmaeus from Europe) ~9 Mya and that the latter two species split ~2 Mya. Given the age of these splits, the microcormorants appear to represent another example of morphological conservatism in the Suliformes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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8. Rapid radiation of Southern Ocean shags in response to receding sea ice
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Rawlence, Nicolas J., Salis, Alexander T., Spencer, Hamish G., Waters, Jonathan M., Scarsbrook, Lachie, Mitchell, Kieren J., Phillips, Richard A., Calderón, Luciano, Cook, Timothée R., Bost, Charles‐André, Dutoit, Ludovic, King, Tania M., Masello, Juan F., Nupen, Lisa J., Quillfeldt, Petra, Ratcliffe, Norman, Ryan, Peter G., Till, Charlotte E., Kennedy, Martyn, Rawlence, Nicolas J., Salis, Alexander T., Spencer, Hamish G., Waters, Jonathan M., Scarsbrook, Lachie, Mitchell, Kieren J., Phillips, Richard A., Calderón, Luciano, Cook, Timothée R., Bost, Charles‐André, Dutoit, Ludovic, King, Tania M., Masello, Juan F., Nupen, Lisa J., Quillfeldt, Petra, Ratcliffe, Norman, Ryan, Peter G., Till, Charlotte E., and Kennedy, Martyn
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Understanding how natural populations respond to climatic shifts is a fundamental goal of biological research in a fast-changing world. The Southern Ocean represents a fascinating system for assessing large-scale climate-driven biological change, as it contains extremely isolated island groups within a predominantly westerly, circumpolar wind and current system. Blue-eyed shags represent a paradoxical seabird radiation—a circumpolar distribution implies strong dispersal capacity yet their species-rich nature suggests local adaptation and isolation. Here we attempt to resolve this paradox in light of the history of repeated cycles of climate change in the Southern Ocean.
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- 2022
9. Lions and brown bears colonized North America in multiple synchronous waves of dispersal across the Bering Land Bridge
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Salis, Alexander T., Bray, Sarah C. E., Lee, Michael S. Y., Heiniger, Holly, Barnett, Ross, Burns, James A., Doronichev, Vladimir, Fedje, Daryl, Golovanova, Liubov, Harington, C. Richard, Hockett, Bryan, Kosintsev, Pavel, Lai, Xulong, Mackie, Quentin, Vasiliev, Sergei, Weinstock, Jacobo, Yamaguchi, Nobuyuki, Meachen, Julie A., Cooper, Alan, Mitchell, Kieren J., Salis, Alexander T., Bray, Sarah C. E., Lee, Michael S. Y., Heiniger, Holly, Barnett, Ross, Burns, James A., Doronichev, Vladimir, Fedje, Daryl, Golovanova, Liubov, Harington, C. Richard, Hockett, Bryan, Kosintsev, Pavel, Lai, Xulong, Mackie, Quentin, Vasiliev, Sergei, Weinstock, Jacobo, Yamaguchi, Nobuyuki, Meachen, Julie A., Cooper, Alan, and Mitchell, Kieren J.
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The Bering Land Bridge connecting North America and Eurasia was periodically exposed and inundated by oscillating sea levels during the Pleistocene glacial cycles. This land connection allowed the intermittent dispersal of animals, including humans, between Western Beringia (far northeast Asia) and Eastern Beringia (northwest North America), changing the faunal community composition of both continents. The Pleistocene glacial cycles also had profound impacts on temperature, precipitation and vegetation, impacting faunal community structure and demography. While these palaeoenvironmental impacts have been studied in many large herbivores from Beringia (e.g., bison, mammoths, horses), the Pleistocene population dynamics of the diverse guild of carnivorans present in the region are less well understood, due to their lower abundances. In this study, we analyse mitochondrial genome data from ancient brown bears (Ursus arctos; n = 103) and lions (Panthera spp.; n = 39), two megafaunal carnivorans that dispersed into North America during the Pleistocene. Our results reveal striking synchronicity in the population dynamics of Beringian lions and brown bears, with multiple waves of dispersal across the Bering Land Bridge coinciding with glacial periods of low sea levels, as well as synchronous local extinctions in Eastern Beringia during Marine Isotope Stage 3. The evolutionary histories of these two taxa underline the crucial biogeographical role of the Bering Land Bridge in the distribution, turnover and maintenance of megafaunal populations in North America.
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10. Rapid radiation of Southern Ocean shags in response to receding sea ice
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Rawlence, Nicolas J., primary, Salis, Alexander T., additional, Spencer, Hamish G., additional, Waters, Jonathan M., additional, Scarsbrook, Lachie, additional, Mitchell, Kieren J., additional, Phillips, Richard A., additional, Calderón, Luciano, additional, Cook, Timothée R., additional, Bost, Charles‐André, additional, Dutoit, Ludovic, additional, King, Tania M., additional, Masello, Juan F., additional, Nupen, Lisa J., additional, Quillfeldt, Petra, additional, Ratcliffe, Norman, additional, Ryan, Peter G., additional, Till, Charlotte E., additional, and Kennedy, Martyn, additional
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11. Lions and brown bears colonized North America in multiple synchronous waves of dispersal across the Bering Land Bridge
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Salis, Alexander T., primary, Bray, Sarah C. E., additional, Lee, Michael S. Y., additional, Heiniger, Holly, additional, Barnett, Ross, additional, Burns, James A., additional, Doronichev, Vladimir, additional, Fedje, Daryl, additional, Golovanova, Liubov, additional, Harington, C. Richard, additional, Hockett, Bryan, additional, Kosintsev, Pavel, additional, Lai, Xulong, additional, Mackie, Quentin, additional, Vasiliev, Sergei, additional, Weinstock, Jacobo, additional, Yamaguchi, Nobuyuki, additional, Meachen, Julie A, additional, Cooper, Alan, additional, and Mitchell, Kieren J., additional
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- 2021
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12. Rapid radiation of Southern Ocean shags in response to receding sea ice
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Rawlence, Nicolas J., primary, Salis, Alexander T., additional, Spencer, Hamish G., additional, Waters, Jonathan M., additional, Scarsbrook, Lachie, additional, Phillips, Richard A., additional, Calderón, Luciano, additional, Cook, Timothée R., additional, Bost, Charles-André, additional, Dutoit, Ludovic, additional, King, Tania M., additional, Masello, Juan F., additional, Nupen, Lisa J., additional, Quillfeldt, Petra, additional, Ratcliffe, Norman, additional, Ryan, Peter G., additional, Till, Charlotte E., additional, and Kennedy, Martyn, additional
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- 2021
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13. Dire Wolves Were the Last of an Ancient New World Canid Lineage
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Perri, A. R., Mitchell, K. J., Mouton, A., Álvarez-Carretero, S., Hulme-Beaman, A., Haile, J., Jamieson, A., Meachen, J., Lin, A. T., Schubert, B. W., Ameen, C., Antipina, E. E., Bover, P., Brace, S., Carmagnini, A., Carøe, C., Samaniego Castruita, J. A., Chatters, J. C., Dobney, K., dos Reis, M., Evin, A., Gaubert, P., Gopalakrishnan, S., Gower, G., Heiniger, H., Helgen, K. M., Kapp, J., Kosintsev, P. A., Linderholm, A., Ozga, A. T., Presslee, S., Salis, A. T., Saremi, N. F., Shew, C., Skerry, K., Taranenko, D. E., Thompson, M., Sablin, M. V., Kuzmin, Y. V., Collins, M. J., Sinding, M. -H. S., Gilbert, M. T. P., Stone, A. C., Shapiro, B., Van Valkenburgh, B., Wayne, R. K., Larson, G., Cooper, A., Frantz, L. A. F., Perri, A. R., Mitchell, K. J., Mouton, A., Álvarez-Carretero, S., Hulme-Beaman, A., Haile, J., Jamieson, A., Meachen, J., Lin, A. T., Schubert, B. W., Ameen, C., Antipina, E. E., Bover, P., Brace, S., Carmagnini, A., Carøe, C., Samaniego Castruita, J. A., Chatters, J. C., Dobney, K., dos Reis, M., Evin, A., Gaubert, P., Gopalakrishnan, S., Gower, G., Heiniger, H., Helgen, K. M., Kapp, J., Kosintsev, P. A., Linderholm, A., Ozga, A. T., Presslee, S., Salis, A. T., Saremi, N. F., Shew, C., Skerry, K., Taranenko, D. E., Thompson, M., Sablin, M. V., Kuzmin, Y. V., Collins, M. J., Sinding, M. -H. S., Gilbert, M. T. P., Stone, A. C., Shapiro, B., Van Valkenburgh, B., Wayne, R. K., Larson, G., Cooper, A., and Frantz, L. A. F.
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Dire wolves are considered to be one of the most common and widespread large carnivores in Pleistocene America1, yet relatively little is known about their evolution or extinction. Here, to reconstruct the evolutionary history of dire wolves, we sequenced five genomes from sub-fossil remains dating from 13,000 to more than 50,000 years ago. Our results indicate that although they were similar morphologically to the extant grey wolf, dire wolves were a highly divergent lineage that split from living canids around 5.7 million years ago. In contrast to numerous examples of hybridization across Canidae2,3, there is no evidence for gene flow between dire wolves and either North American grey wolves or coyotes. This suggests that dire wolves evolved in isolation from the Pleistocene ancestors of these species. Our results also support an early New World origin of dire wolves, while the ancestors of grey wolves, coyotes and dholes evolved in Eurasia and colonized North America only relatively recently. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.
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14. Ancient genomes reveal hybridisation between extinct short-faced bears and the extant spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus)
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Salis, Alexander T, primary, Gower, Graham, additional, Schubert, Blaine W., additional, Soibelzon, Leopoldo H., additional, Heiniger, Holly, additional, Prieto, Alfredo, additional, Prevosti, Francisco J., additional, Meachen, Julie, additional, Cooper, Alan, additional, and Mitchell, Kieren J., additional
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15. Lions and brown bears colonized North America in multiple synchronous waves of dispersal across the Bering Land Bridge
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Salis, Alexander T, primary, Bray, Sarah C E, additional, Lee, Michael S Y, additional, Heiniger, Holly, additional, Barnett, Ross, additional, Burns, James A, additional, Doronichev, Vladimir, additional, Fedje, Daryl, additional, Golovanova, Liubov, additional, Harington, C Richard, additional, Hockett, Bryan, additional, Kosintsev, Pavel, additional, Lai, Xulong, additional, Mackie, Quentin, additional, Vasiliev, Sergei, additional, Weinstock, Jacobo, additional, Yamaguchi, Nobuyuki, additional, Meachen, Julie, additional, Cooper, Alan, additional, and Mitchell, Kieren J, additional
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16. Low Spatial Genetic Differentiation Associated with Rapid Recolonization in the New Zealand Fur SealArctocephalus forsteri
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Dussex, Nicolas, primary, Robertson, Bruce C., additional, Salis, Alexander T., additional, Kalinin, Aleksandr, additional, Best, Hugh, additional, and Gemmell, Neil J., additional
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17. Myth or relict: Does ancient DNA detect the enigmatic Upland seal?
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Salis, Alexander T., primary, Easton, Luke J., additional, Robertson, Bruce C., additional, Gemmell, Neil, additional, Smith, Ian W.G., additional, Weisler, Marshall I., additional, Waters, Jonathan M., additional, and Rawlence, Nicolas J., additional
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18. Low Spatial Genetic Differentiation Associated with Rapid Recolonization in the New Zealand Fur Seal Arctocephalus forsteri.
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Dussex, Nicolas, Robertson, Bruce C., Salis, Alexander T., Kalinin, Aleksandr, Best, Hugh, and Gemmell, Neil J.
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Population declines resulting from anthropogenic activities are of major consequence for the long-term survival of species because the resulting loss of genetic diversity can lead to extinction via the effects of inbreeding depression, fixation of deleterious mutations, and loss of adaptive potential. Otariid pinnipeds have been exploited commercially to near extinction with some species showing higher demographic resilience and recolonization potential than others. The New Zealand fur seal (NZFS) was heavily impacted by commercial sealing between the late 18th and early 19th centuries, but has recolonized its former range in southern Australia. The species has also recolonized its former range in New Zealand, yet little is known about the pattern of recolonization. Here, we first used 11 microsatellite markers (n = 383) to investigate the contemporary population structure and dispersal patterns in the NZFS (Arctocephalus forsteri). Secondly, we model postsealing recolonization with 1 additional mtDNA cytochrome b (n = 261) marker. Our data identified 3 genetic clusters: an Australian, a subantarctic, and a New Zealand one, with a weak and probably transient subdivision within the latter cluster. Demographic history scenarios supported a recolonization of the New Zealand coastline from remote west coast colonies, which is consistent with contemporary gene flow and with the species' high resilience. The present data suggest the management of distinct genetic units in the North and South of New Zealand along a genetic gradient. Assignment of individuals to their colony of origin was limited (32%) with the present data indicating the current microsatellite markers are unlikely sufficient to assign fisheries bycatch of NZFSs to colonies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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19. Dire wolves were the last of an ancient New World canid lineage
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Andrew T. Ozga, Mary Thompson, Colin J. Shew, Mario dos Reis, Anne C. Stone, James C. Chatters, Beth Shapiro, Holly Heiniger, Philippe Gaubert, Josh Kapp, Graham Gower, Alan Cooper, Dmitry E. Taranenko, Alexander T. Salis, Alexandra Jamieson, James Haile, Kristofer M. Helgen, Julie Meachen, Alberto Carmagnini, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Yaroslav V. Kuzmin, Audrey T. Lin, Carly Ameen, Pavel A. Kosintsev, Ardern Hulme-Beaman, Mikkel-Holger S. Sinding, Greger Larson, Keith Dobney, Alice Mouton, Nedda F. Saremi, Kieren J. Mitchell, Laurent A. F. Frantz, Katherine M. Skerry, Samantha Presslee, Sandra Álvarez-Carretero, Shyam Gopalakrishnan, Robert K. Wayne, Ekaterina Antipina, Blaire Van Valkenburgh, Allowen Evin, Pere Bover, Angela R. Perri, Matthew J. Collins, Anna Linderholm, Christian Carøe, Mikhail V. Sablin, Selina Brace, Blaine W. Schubert, José Alfredo Samaniego Castruita, Durham University, Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, University of Adelaide, University of California [Los Angeles] (UCLA), University of California (UC), School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), University of Liverpool, Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art [Oxford], School of Archaeology [Oxford], University of Oxford-University of Oxford, Des Moines University, Smithsonian Institution, East Tennessee State University (ETSU), University of Exeter, Russian Academy of Sciences [Moscow] (RAS), University of Zaragoza - Universidad de Zaragoza [Zaragoza], The Natural History Museum [London] (NHM), Globe Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH), The University of Sydney, University of Aberdeen, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier (UMR ISEM), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR226-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Evolution et Diversité Biologique (EDB), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Australian Museum [Sydney], University of California [Santa Cruz] (UC Santa Cruz), Ural Federal University [Ekaterinburg] (UrFU), Texas A&M University System, Arizona State University [Tempe] (ASU), University of York [York, UK], Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS), Idaho State University, Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ZIN RAS), Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy [Novosibirsk], South Australian Museum (SAM), Ludwig Maximilian University [Munich] (LMU), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Perri, Angela R [0000-0002-4349-1060], Mitchell, Kieren J [0000-0002-3921-0262], Mouton, Alice [0000-0002-0598-8789], Hulme-Beaman, Ardern [0000-0001-8130-9648], Haile, James [0000-0002-8521-8337], Jamieson, Alexandra [0000-0003-0979-5762], Meachen, Julie [0000-0002-2526-2045], Lin, Audrey T [0000-0003-2505-1480], Bover, Pere [0000-0003-2942-2840], Brace, Selina [0000-0003-2126-6732], Samaniego Castruita, Jose A [0000-0001-5904-1198], Chatters, James C [0000-0001-8774-1044], Dobney, Keith [0000-0001-9036-4681], Dos Reis, Mario [0000-0001-9514-3976], Evin, Allowen [0000-0003-4515-1649], Gower, Graham [0000-0002-6197-3872], Helgen, Kristofer M [0000-0002-8776-4040], Salis, Alexander T [0000-0002-3205-3006], Taranenko, Dmitry E [0000-0002-3311-3947], Thompson, Mary [0000-0001-5626-3246], Sablin, Mikhail V [0000-0002-2773-7454], Kuzmin, Yaroslav V [0000-0002-4512-2269], Sinding, Mikkel-Holger S [0000-0003-1371-219X], Stone, Anne C [0000-0001-8021-8314], Shapiro, Beth [0000-0002-2733-7776], Van Valkenburgh, Blaire [0000-0002-9935-4719], Larson, Greger [0000-0002-4092-0392], Frantz, Laurent AF [0000-0001-8030-3885], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
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0106 biological sciences ,EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY ,Lineage (evolution) ,Geographic Mapping ,CANIS LUPUS ,PHENOTYPE ,01 natural sciences ,COLONIZATION ,Extant taxon ,FOSSILS ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,Phylogeny ,CANID ,FOSSIL ,CARNIVORA ,0303 health sciences ,WOLF ,Multidisciplinary ,NORTH ,Genome ,ORIGIN ,Fossils ,Biodiversity ,Genomics ,CANIDAE ,MEGAFAUNAL EXTINCTIONS ,GENOME ,ADMIXTURE ,Geography ,EXTINCTION ,Phenotype ,SUBFOSSIL ,EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL ,[SDE]Environmental Sciences ,HYBRIDIZATION ,Gene Flow ,NORTH AMERICA ,Pleistocene ,GENETICS ,PHYLOGENY ,PLEISTOCENE ,Zoology ,Extinction, Biological ,010603 evolutionary biology ,EURASIA ,CLASSIFICATION ,03 medical and health sciences ,COYOTE ,WOLVES ,EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY ,REVEALS ,GENE FLOW ,NONHUMAN ,Animals ,ARTICLE ,SPECIES EXTINCTION ,PALEONTOLOGY ,030304 developmental biology ,Taxonomy ,CANIS LATRANS ,MAMMALIA ,Extinction ,Wolves ,Human evolutionary genetics ,ANIMALS ,Paleontology ,ANIMAL ,15. Life on land ,North America ,GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING ,GENOMICS - Abstract
Dire wolves are considered to be one of the most common and widespread large carnivores in Pleistocene America1, yet relatively little is known about their evolution or extinction. Here, to reconstruct the evolutionary history of dire wolves, we sequenced five genomes from sub-fossil remains dating from 13,000 to more than 50,000 years ago. Our results indicate that although they were similar morphologically to the extant grey wolf, dire wolves were a highly divergent lineage that split from living canids around 5.7 million years ago. In contrast to numerous examples of hybridization across Canidae2,3, there is no evidence for gene flow between dire wolves and either North American grey wolves or coyotes. This suggests that dire wolves evolved in isolation from the Pleistocene ancestors of these species. Our results also support an early New World origin of dire wolves, while the ancestors of grey wolves, coyotes and dholes evolved in Eurasia and colonized North America only relatively recently. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited. Acknowledgements We thank the staff at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Cincinnati Museum Center, Danish Zoological Museum, Harrison Zoological Museum, Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, Idaho Museum of Natural History, Institute of Archaeology (Russian Academy of Sciences), Institute of Systematics and Animal Ecology (Russian Academy of Sciences), Institute of Zoology (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Instituto de Conservação da Natureza e das Florestas, Kansas Museum of Natural History, La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, Ludwig Maximilian University, McClung Museum, Museum of the Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology (Russian Academy of Sciences), Museum national d’Histoire naturelle, National Museums Scotland, Natural History Museum London, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Naturhistorisches Museum Bern, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Swedish Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, SYLVATROP, US Bureau of Reclamation, University of California Museum of Paleontology, University of Texas at El Paso, University of Washington Burke Museum and the Zoological Institute (Russian Academy of Sciences; state assignment no. АААА-А19-119032590102-7) for access to specimens in their care; T. Barnosky, S. Bray, A. Farrell, R. Fischer, A. Harris, J. Harris, A. Henrici, P. Holroyd, R. MacPhee, T. Martin, A. Philpot, J. Saunders, J. Southon, G. Storrs, G. Takeuchi, X. Wang and C. Widga for assistance; and L. DeSantis for comments. A.M. used computational and storage services associated with the Hoffman2 Shared Cluster provided by UCLA Institute for Digital Research and Education’s Research Technology Group. DireGWC was sequenced using the Vincent J. Coates Genomics Sequencing Laboratory at UC Berkeley, supported by NIH S10 OD018174 Instrumentation Grant. We acknowledge the assistance of the Danish National High-Throughput Sequencing Centre, BGI-Europe, the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and the Australian Cancer Research Foundation (ACRF) Cancer Genomics Facility for assistance in Illumina and BGIseq500 data generation. A.R.P. was supported by a Marie Curie COFUND Junior Research Fellowship (Durham University). A.M. was supported by an NSF grant (award number: 1457106) and the QCB Collaboratory Postdoctoral Fellowship (UCLA). L.A.F.F., J.H., A.H.-B. and G.L. were supported by either European Research Council grant (ERC-2013-StG-337574-UNDEAD and ERC-2019-StG-853272-PALAEOFARM) and/or Natural Environmental Research Council grants (NE/K005243/1 and NE/K003259/1). K.S. was supported by a grant from Barrett, the Honors College at Arizona State University. A.T.O. was supported by the Strategic Initiative Funds, Office of the President, Arizona State University to the Institute of Human Origins DNA and Human Origins at Arizona State University project. L.A.F.F. was supported by a Junior Research Fellowship (Wolfson College, University of Oxford) and L.A.F.F. and A. Carmagnini were supported by the Wellcome Trust (210119/Z/18/Z). S.G. was supported by Carlsbergfondet grant CF14–0995 and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions grant 655732-WhereWolf. M.T.P.G. was supported by ERC Consolidator grant 681396-Extinction Genomics. B.S. and J.K. were supported by IMLS MG-30-17-0045-17 and NSF DEB-1754451. A.H.-B. was supported by the Leverhulme Trust (ECF-2017-315). A. Cooper, K.J.M. and H.H. were supported by the Australian Research Council. A.T.S. and G.G. were supported by Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarships. A.T.L. was supported by the Peter Buck Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History. Y.V.K. was supported by the by State Assignment of the Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy.
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