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Springer, Mammal Research, 3(60), p. 271-271, 2015
DOI: 10.1007/s13364-015-0228-y
Springer, Mammal Research, 2(60), p. 163-168, 2015
DOI: 10.1007/s13364-015-0220-6
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Long-distance dispersal of a wolf, Canis lupus, in northwestern Europe
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Verena Harms,
Romolo Caniglia,
Sylwia D. Czarnomska,
Elena Fabbri,
Bogumiła Jędrzejewska,
Gesa Kluth,
Aksel Bo Madsen,
Carsten Nowak,
Cino Pertoldi,
Ettore Randi,
Ilka Reinhardt,
Astrid Vik Stronen
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Abstract
Several mammal species have recolonized their historical ranges across Europe during the last decades. In No-vember 2012, a wolf-looking canid was found dead in Thy National Park (56° 56′ N, 8° 25′ E) in Jutland, Denmark. DNA from this individual and nine German wolves were genotyped using a genome-wide panel of 22,163 canine single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers and compared to existing profiles based on the same marker panel obtained from northeastern Polish (n=13) wolves, domestic dogs (n=13) and known wolf-dog hybrids (n=4). The Thy canid was confirmed to be a wolf from the German-western Polish population, approximately 800 km to the southeast. Access to the German reference database on DNA profiles based on 13 autosomal microsatellites of German wolves made it possible to pinpoint the exact pack origin of the Thy wolf in Saxony, Germany. This was the first documented observation of a wolf in Den-mark in 200 years and another example of long-distance dispersal of a carnivore.