Revisiting the Woolly wolf (Canis lupus chanco) phylogeny in Himalaya: Addressing taxonomy, spatial extent and distribution of an ancient lineage in Asia.

Of the sub-species of Holarctic wolf, the Woolly wolf (Canis lupus chanco) is uniquely adapted to atmospheric hypoxia and widely distributed across the Himalaya, Qinghai Tibetan Plateau (QTP) and Mongolia. Taxonomic ambiguity still exists for this sub-species because of complex evolutionary history...

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Main Authors: BheemDutt Joshi, Salvador Lyngdoh, Sujeet Kumar Singh, Reeta Sharma, Vinay Kumar, Ved Prakash Tiwari, S A Dar, Aishwarya Maheswari, Ranjana Pal, Tawqir Bashir, Hussain Saifee Reshamwala, Shivam Shrotriya, S Sathyakumar, Bilal Habib, Laura Kvist, Surendra Prakash Goyal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231621