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Japanese wolves

  • plural
    of Japanese wolf.
    Japanese wolf
    noun
    a wolf, Canis lupus hodophilax, one of two subspecies of gray wolf indigenous to the Japanese archipelago, but extinct since the early 20th century, resembling a Border collie in stature and believed to be the closest wild relative to the modern domestic dog.

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Not all dogs have equal genetic overlap with Japanese wolves, however.

From Science Magazine Oct. 18, 2021

Might Japanese wolves and dogs share more than just geography?

From Science Magazine Oct. 18, 2021

The team speculates that Japanese wolves bred with dogs that were moving east after a hypothesized east-west split.

From Science Magazine Oct. 18, 2021

The Japanese wolves stood out as their own group, separate from the other species, the team reported last week on the preprint server bioRxiv.

From Science Magazine Oct. 18, 2021

His team found four genes from Japanese wolves in Japanese dogs, but it’s unclear what they do or why they have stuck around.

From Science Magazine Oct. 18, 2021

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