reviving the african wolf canis lupus lupaster in north and west africa a mitochondrial lineage ranging more than 6,000 km wide振兴非洲狼狼豺在非洲北部和西部一个线粒体血统范围超过6000公里宽.pdfVIP

Reviving the African Wolf Canis lupus lupaster in North and West Africa: A Mitochondrial Lineage Ranging More than 6,000 km Wide 1 ´ 2 3 4 5 ´ ` Philippe Gaubert *, Cecile Bloch , Slim Benyacoub , Adnan Abdelhamid , Paolo Pagani , Chabi Adeyemi 6 7 2 Marc Sylvestre Djagoun , Arnaud Couloux , Sylvain Dufour ´ ` 1 UMR BOREA IRD 207, Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France, 2 SYLVATROP, Nantes, France, 3 Laboratoire d’Ecologie des Systemes Terrestres et Aquatiques, ´ ´ ´ Faculte des Sciences, Universite d’Annaba, Algerie, 4 Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency, Nature Conservation Sector, Cairo, Egypt, 5 Dutch Wildlife Health Centre, ´ ´ ´ Utrecht, The Netherlands, 6 Laboratoire d’Ecologie Appliquee, Faculte des Sciences Agronomiques, Universite d’Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Benin, 7 Genoscope, Centre ´ National de Sequenc¸age, Evry, France Abstract The recent discovery of a lineage of gray wolf in North-East Africa suggests the presence of a cryptic canid on the continent, the African wolf Canis lupus lupaster. We analyzed the mtDNA diversity (cytochrome b and control region) of a series of African Canis including wolf-like animals from North and West Africa. Our objectives were to assess the actual range of C. l. lupaster, to further estimate the genetic characteristics and demographic history of its lineage,