MEXICO: The African golden jackal, it turns out, may be a genetically distinct species when compared against the golden jackals of Europe.
In a report published today in the scientific journal Current Biology, international researchers from the United States, Russia, and other countries analyzed mitochondrial, genomic, and microsatellite sequence data to compare the two species. They then compared these two species to that of gray wolves to determine that the African golden jackal is its own species.
“Our results showed that African and Eurasian golden jackals were distinct across all the genetic markers we tested, including data from whole genomes, suggesting these are independently evolving lineages,” reports Klaus-Peter Koepfli, who is a conservation and evolutionary geneticist with the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Washington.
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