ArticleScience advances2022
Reviving ghost alleles: Genetically admixed coyotes along the American Gulf Coast are critical for saving the endangered red wolf.
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- De-extinction technology and its application to conservation.The Journal of heredity · 2026Review
- Evolving conservation: The role of unconventional approaches to restore contemporary vertebrate populations and genomic biodiversity.The Journal of heredity · 2026Review
- The paradoxical extinction: Exploring signatures of assortative mating as a possible mechanism that maintains canonical Red Wolf genetic ancestry in the American Gulf Coast canids.The Journal of heredity · 2026Article
- Genomic-Guided Conservation Actions to Restore the Most Endangered Conifer in the Mediterranean Basin.Molecular ecology · 2025Article
- Identification of Signatures of Positive Selection That Have Shaped the Genomic Landscape of South African Pig Populations.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Conservation implications of elucidating the Korean wolf taxonomic ambiguity through whole-genome sequencing.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- The natural history and ecology of melanism in red wolf and coyote populations of the southeastern United States - evidence for Gloger's rule.BMC zoology · 2022Article
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Abstract
The last known red wolves were captured in southwestern Louisiana and eastern Texas in 1980 to establish a captive breeding population. Before their extirpation, gene flow with coyotes resulted in the persistence of endangered red wolf genetic variation in local coyote populations. We assessed genomic ancestry and morphology of coyotes in southwestern Louisiana. We detected that 38 to 62% of the coyote genomes contained red wolf ancestry acquired in the past 30 years and have an admixture profile similar to that of the canids captured before the extirpation of red wolves. We further documented a positive correlation between ancestry and weight. Our findings highlight the importance of hybrids and admixed genomes as a reservoir of endangered species ancestry for innovative conservation efforts. Together, this work presents an unprecedented system that conservation can leverage to enrich the recovery program of an endangered species.
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