Wolf population genetics in Europe: a systematic review, meta-analysis and suggestions for conservation and management

Multimethod, multistate Bayesian hierarchical modeling approach for use in regional monitoring of wolves

(2016) José Jiménez et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Whole mitochondrial genomes illuminate ancient intercontinental dispersals of grey wolves (Canis lupus )

(2016) Stephan Koblmüller et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Genetic rescue in a severely inbred wolf population

(2016) Mikael Åkesson et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Blood does not buy goodwill: allowing culling increases poaching of a large carnivore

(2016) Guillaume Chapron et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Conflict Misleads Large Carnivore Management and Conservation: Brown Bears and Wolves in Spain

(2016) Alberto Fernández-Gil et al.   PLoS One

Wolf Lethal Control and Livestock Depredations: Counter-Evidence from Respecified Models

(2016) Niraj Poudyal et al.   PLoS One

Wolves Recolonizing Islands: Genetic Consequences and Implications for Conservation and Management

(2016) Liivi Plumer et al.   PLoS One

Recruitment in a social carnivore before and after harvest

(2015) D. E. Ausband et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

Toothless wildlife protection laws

(2015) José Vicente López-Bao et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Predators and the public trust

(2015) Adrian Treves et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Non-invasive genetic sampling to predict wolf distribution and habitat suitability in the Northern Italian Apennines: implications for livestock depredation risk

(2015) P. Milanesi et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE RESEARCH

Long-distance dispersal connects Dinaric-Balkan and Alpine grey wolf (Canis lupus) populations

(2015) Nina Ražen et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE RESEARCH

Effects of wolf removal on livestock depredation recurrence and wolf recovery in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming

(2015) Elizabeth H. Bradley et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

Decades of population genetic research reveal the need for harmonization of molecular markers: the grey wolfCanis lupusas a case study

(2015) G. Arjen de Groot et al.   MAMMAL REVIEW

Y chromosome haplotype distribution of brown bears (Ursus arctos ) in Northern Europe provides insight into population history and recovery

(2015) Julia Schregel et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Carnivore coexistence: Value the wilderness

(2015) J. J. Gilroy et al.   SCIENCE

Metapopulation inbreeding dynamics, effective size and subpopulation differentiation—A general analytical approach for diploid organisms

(2015) Ola Hössjer et al.   THEORETICAL POPULATION BIOLOGY

Echinococcus infections in the Baltic region

(2015) Audronė Marcinkutė et al.   VETERINARY PARASITOLOGY

Genome-wide analyses suggest parallel selection for universal traits may eclipse local environmental selection in a highly mobile carnivore

(2015) Astrid Vik Stronen et al.   Ecology and Evolution

One, no one, or one hundred thousand: how many wolves are there currently in Italy?

(2015) Marco Galaverni et al.   Mammal Research

Long-distance dispersal of a wolf, Canis lupus, in northwestern Europe

(2015) Liselotte Wesley Andersen et al.   Mammal Research

Real-time assessment of hybridization between wolves and dogs: combining noninvasive samples with ancestry informative markers

(2015) Raquel Godinho et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Living on the edge: reconstructing the genetic history of the Finnish wolf population

(2014) Eeva Jansson et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Testing for Hardy–Weinberg Proportions: Have We Lost the Plot?

(2014) Robin S. Waples   JOURNAL OF HEREDITY

Noninvasive sampling and genetic variability, pack structure, and dynamics in an expanding wolf population

(2014) Romolo Caniglia et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Genetic diversity and structuring of the grey wolf population from the Central Balkans based on mitochondrial DNA variation

(2014) Mihajla Djan et al.   MAMMALIAN BIOLOGY

Brown and Polar Bear Y Chromosomes Reveal Extensive Male-Biased Gene Flow within Brother Lineages

(2014) Tobias Bidon et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A single-nucleotide polymorphism-based approach for rapid and cost-effective genetic wolf monitoring in Europe based on noninvasively collected samples

(2014) Robert H. S. Kraus et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Intensity of Territorial Marking Predicts Wolf Reproduction: Implications for Wolf Monitoring

(2014) Luis Llaneza et al.   PLoS One

Multilocus Detection of Wolf x Dog Hybridization in Italy, and Guidelines for Marker Selection

(2014) Ettore Randi et al.   PLoS One

Large-Scale Genetic Structuring of a Widely Distributed Carnivore - The Eurasian Lynx (Lynx lynx)

(2014) Eli K. Rueness et al.   PLoS One

Genetic Variability of the Grey Wolf Canis lupus in the Caucasus in Comparison with Europe and the Middle East: Distinct or Intermediary Population?

(2014) Małgorzata Pilot et al.   PLoS One

How Many Wolves (Canis lupus) Fit into Germany? The Role of Assumptions in Predictive Rule-Based Habitat Models for Habitat Generalists

(2014) Dominik Fechter et al.   PLoS One

Effects of Wolf Mortality on Livestock Depredations

(2014) Robert B. Wielgus et al.   PLoS One

Recovery of large carnivores in Europe’s modern human-dominated landscapes

(2014) Guillaume Chapron et al.   SCIENCE

Saving large carnivores, but losing the apex predator?

(2013) Andrés Ordiz et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Hunting Effects on Favourable Conservation Status of Highly Inbred Swedish Wolves

(2013) LINDA LAIKRE et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Concordant mitochondrial and microsatellite DNA structuring between Polish lowland and Carpathian Mountain wolves

(2013) Sylwia D. Czarnomska et al.   CONSERVATION GENETICS

Unregulated hunting and genetic recovery from a severe population decline: the cautionary case of Bulgarian wolves

(2013) Andre E. Moura et al.   CONSERVATION GENETICS

Genome-wide signatures of population bottlenecks and diversifying selection in European wolves

(2013) M Pilot et al.   HEREDITY

MHC Variability in an Isolated Wolf Population in Italy

(2013) M. Galaverni et al.   JOURNAL OF HEREDITY

Genetic structure of expanding wolf (Canis lupus) populations in Italy and Croatia, and the early steps of the recolonization of the Eastern Alps

(2013) E. Fabbri et al.   MAMMALIAN BIOLOGY

Y Chromosome Analysis of Dingoes and Southeast Asian Village Dogs Suggests a Neolithic Continental Expansion from Southeast Asia Followed by Multiple Austronesian Dispersals

(2013) Benjamin N. Sacks et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Molecular Phylogeography of the Brown Bear (Ursus arctos) in Northeastern Asia Based on Analyses of Complete Mitochondrial DNA Sequences

(2013) Daisuke Hirata et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Balancing selection and heterozygote advantage in major histocompatibility complex loci of the bottlenecked Finnish wolf population

(2013) A. K. Niskanen et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Spatial Genetic Analyses Reveal Cryptic Population Structure and Migration Patterns in a Continuously Harvested Grey Wolf (Canis lupus) Population in North-Eastern Europe

(2013) Maris Hindrikson et al.   PLoS One

Phylogeography and Post-Glacial Recolonization in Wolverines (Gulo gulo) from across Their Circumpolar Distribution

(2013) Joanna Zigouris et al.   PLoS One

North-South Differentiation and a Region of High Diversity in European Wolves (Canis lupus)

(2013) Astrid V. Stronen et al.   PLoS One

De Novo SNP Discovery in the Scandinavian Brown Bear (Ursus arctos)

(2013) Anita J. Norman et al.   PLoS One

Complete Mitochondrial Genomes of Ancient Canids Suggest a European Origin of Domestic Dogs

(2013) O. Thalmann et al.   SCIENCE

Phylogenetic applications of whole Y-chromosome sequences and the Near Eastern origin of Ashkenazi Levites

(2013) Siiri Rootsi et al.   Nature Communications

Comparison of single nucleotide polymorphisms and microsatellites in non-invasive genetic monitoring of a wolf population

(2012) Elena Fabbri et al.   Archives of Biological Sciences

Connectivity and population subdivision at the fringe of a large brown bear (Ursus arctos) population in North Western Europe

(2012) Alexander Kopatz et al.   CONSERVATION GENETICS

Selection of wild ungulates by wolvesCanis lupus(L. 1758) in an area of the Northern Apennines (North Italy)

(2012) P. Milanesi et al.   ETHOLOGY ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Who is who? Identification of livestock predators using forensic genetic approaches

(2012) Romolo Caniglia et al.   Forensic Science International-Genetics

Using a reference population yardstick to calibrate and compare genetic diversity reported in different studies: an example from the brown bear

(2012) T Skrbinšek et al.   HEREDITY

Complete mitochondrial genomes and a novel spatial genetic method reveal cryptic phylogeographical structure and migration patterns among brown bears in north-western Eurasia

(2012) Marju Keis et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Hair snaring and molecular genetic identification for reconstructing the spatial structure of Eurasian lynx populations

(2012) Francesca Davoli et al.   MAMMALIAN BIOLOGY

Identification of recent hybridization between gray wolves and domesticated dogs by SNP genotyping

(2012) Bridgett M. vonHoldt et al.   MAMMALIAN GENOME

Rise and fall of a wolf population: genetic diversity and structure during recovery, rapid expansion and drastic decline

(2012) E. Jansson et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Dietary Differentiation and the Evolution of Population Genetic Structure in a Highly Mobile Carnivore

(2012) Małgorzata Pilot et al.   PLoS One

Bucking the Trend in Wolf-Dog Hybridization: First Evidence from Europe of Hybridization between Female Dogs and Male Wolves

(2012) Maris Hindrikson et al.   PLoS One

Extensive polymorphism and evidence of selection pressure on major histocompatibility complex DLA-DRB1, DQA1 and DQB1 class II genes in Croatian grey wolves

(2012) H. Arbanasić et al.   TISSUE ANTIGENS

Microsatellite diversity and structure of Carpathian brown bears (Ursus arctos): consequences of human caused fragmentation

(2011) Martin Straka et al.   CONSERVATION GENETICS

Changes of wolf (Canis lupus) diet in Italy in relation to the increase of wild ungulate abundance

(2011) A. Meriggi et al.   ETHOLOGY ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Fine-scale genetic structure suggests low levels of short-range gene flow in a wolf population of the Italian Apennines

(2011) Massimo Scandura et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE RESEARCH

A genome-wide perspective on the evolutionary history of enigmatic wolf-like canids

(2011) Bridgett M. vonHoldt et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Genetics and conservation of wolves Canis lupus in Europe

(2011) Ettore RANDI   MAMMAL REVIEW

Assessing the prevalence of hybridization between sympatric Canis species surrounding the red wolf (Canis rufus) recovery area in North Carolina

(2011) JUSTIN H. BOHLING et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Genetic evidence for multiple events of hybridization between wolves and domestic dogs in the Iberian Peninsula

(2011) RAQUEL GODINHO et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Mitochondrial DNA data indicate an introduction through Mainland Southeast Asia for Australian dingoes and Polynesian domestic dogs

(2011) M. C. R. Oskarsson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Shoot, shovel and shut up: cryptic poaching slows restoration of a large carnivore in Europe

(2011) O. Liberg et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Rescuing Wolves from Politics: Wildlife as a Public Trust Resource

(2011) J. T. Bruskotter et al.   SCIENCE

Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth

(2011) James A. Estes et al.   SCIENCE

Phylogeographic history of grey wolves in Europe

(2010) Małgorzata Pilot et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Signatures of demographic bottlenecks in European wolf populations

(2010) Natalia Sastre et al.   CONSERVATION GENETICS

Predicting spatio-temporal recolonization of large carnivore populations and livestock depredation risk: wolves in the Italian Alps

(2010) F. Marucco et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Y-chromosome microsatellite variation in Italian wolves: A contribution to the study of wolf-dog hybridization patterns

(2010) Laura Iacolina et al.   MAMMALIAN BIOLOGY

Genetic structure in large, continuous mammal populations: the example of brown bears in northwestern Eurasia

(2010) E. TAMMELEHT et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Meta-Analysis of Relationships between Human Offtake, Total Mortality and Population Dynamics of Gray Wolves (Canis lupus)

(2010) Scott Creel et al.   PLoS One

Late-Quaternary biogeographic scenarios for the brown bear (Ursus arctos), a wild mammal model species

(2010) John Davison et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Noninvasive monitoring of wolves at the edge of their distribution and the cost of their conservation

(2009) J. Echegaray et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

Evidence of wolf dispersal in anthropogenic habitats of the Polish Carpathian Mountains

(2009) Roman Gula et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Protection from harvesting restores the natural social structure of eastern wolf packs

(2009) Linda Y. Rutledge et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Does reduced MHC diversity decrease viability of vertebrate populations?

(2009) Jacek Radwan et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Genetic structure of the Eurasian lynx population in north-eastern Poland and the Baltic states

(2009) Krzysztof Schmidt et al.   CONSERVATION GENETICS

Genetic profiles and sex identification of found-dead wolves determined by the use of an 11-loci PCR multiplex

(2009) Barbara van Asch et al.   Forensic Science International-Genetics

Wolf survival and population trend using non-invasive capture-recapture techniques in the Western Alps

(2009) Francesca Marucco et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Dispersal Behavior and the Connectivity Between Wolf Populations in Northern Europe

(2009) Ilpo Kojola et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

mtDNA Data Indicate a Single Origin for Dogs South of Yangtze River, Less Than 16,300 Years Ago, from Numerous Wolves

(2009) J.-F. Pang et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Population genomics of the inbred Scandinavian wolf

(2009) JENNY HAGENBLAD et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Sudden expansion of a single brown bear maternal lineage across northern continental Eurasia after the last ice age: a general demographic model for mammals?

(2009) MARJU KORSTEN et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Complex population structure in African village dogs and its implications for inferring dog domestication history

(2009) A. R. Boyko et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The prehistoric and preindustrial deforestation of Europe

(2009) Jed O. Kaplan et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Retrospective investigation of captive red wolf reproductive success in relation to age and inbreeding

(2009) K.M. Lockyear et al.   ZOO BIOLOGY

Habitat suitability model for Polish wolves based on long-term national census

(2008) W. Jędrzejewski et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

Genetic structure of the northwestern Russian wolf populations and gene flow between Russia and Finland

(2008) Jouni Aspi et al.   CONSERVATION GENETICS

Hybridization among Three Native North American Canis Species in a Region of Natural Sympatry

(2008) Frank Hailer et al.   PLoS One

Genetic effects of harvest on wild animal populations

(2008) F ALLENDORF et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Detecting hybridization between wild species and their domesticated relatives

(2007) ETTORE RANDI   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY