CaseStudy2GrayWolvesSub-Species-Northwestern：案例2灰狼亚种-西北.pdfVIP

ModelSim Evolution 2014v3.0- Center for Connected Learning at Northwestern University Student Materials Case Study 2: Gray Wolves Sub-Species Canis lupus has 39 subspecies currently described, including two subspecies of domestic dog, Canis lupus dingo and Canis lupus familiaris, and many subspecies of wild wolf throughout the Northern hemisphere Domestic dogs show a great deal of trait variation between different breeds. Likewise, wolves show a great deal of trait variation between sub-species, though they can interbreed. The Zoological Gardens of London for example once successfully managed to mate a male European wolf to an Indian female wolf. Wild gray wolves (Canis lupus) species historically ranged over most of the Northwern Hemisphere. There historical range is shown in the map below. Green represents their present range, and red represents where they have been extirpated from (no longer exist in that region). Image credit: /wiki/File:Gray_Wolf_Range.png This reduced range is believed to be largely due to human impacts such as hunting, urbanization, ecosystem fragmentation, and intentional eradication of native wolf populations in the past. Other factors that may have led to the reduced range of wolves inlcude polluation, climate change, and extripation of native prey species. 1 Case Study #2 – Activity Sheet ModelSim Evolution 2014v3.0- Center for Connected Learning at Northwestern University Student Materials Populations of wolves are not all identical. Scientists have classified different populatons