Japanese wolves

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  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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Japanese wolves

Might Japanese wolves and dogs share more than just geography?

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 18, 2021

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

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

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

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