The cryptic African wolf: Canis aureus lupaster is not a golden jackal and is not endemic to Egypt.

The cryptic African wolf: Canis aureus lupaster is not a golden jackal and is not endemic to Egypt.

The Egyptian jackal (Canis aureus lupaster) has hitherto been considered a large, rare subspecies of the golden jackal (C. aureus). It has maintained its taxonomical status to date, despite studies demonstrating morphological similarities to the grey wolf (C. lupus). We have analyzed 2055 bp of mito...

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Main Authors: Eli Knispel Rueness, Maria Gulbrandsen Asmyhr, Claudio Sillero-Zubiri, David W Macdonald, Afework Bekele, Anagaw Atickem, Nils Chr Stenseth
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/21298107/?tool=EBI

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