{"id":1899,"date":"2014-06-09T21:16:12","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T02:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=1899"},"modified":"2014-06-10T18:44:32","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T23:44:32","slug":"genetics-affirm-existence-of-bcs-coastal-wolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/genetics-affirm-existence-of-bcs-coastal-wolves\/","title":{"rendered":"Genetics affirm existence of BC\u2019s \u2018coastal wolves\u2019<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1876\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_0131.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1876\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1876\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_0131.jpg\" alt=\"Although wolves in BC can easily swim across the waterways that separate BC\u2019s coastal islands from the mainland, both traditional first nations knowledge and scientific studies indicate that the populations on both sides rarely interbreed, and that the coastal wolves live a different lifestyle that includes consumption of more fish. (Photo credit: Chris Darimont)\" width=\"300\" height=\"492\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1876\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Although wolves in BC can easily swim across the waterways that separate BC\u2019s coastal islands from the mainland, both traditional first nations knowledge and scientific studies indicate that the populations on both sides rarely interbreed, and that the coastal wolves live a different lifestyle that includes consumption of more fish. (Photo credit: Chris Darimont)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">New genetic information affirms what members of the Heiltsuk First Nation have long known: the islands off British Columbia host a population of \u2018coastal wolves\u2019 that is distinct but related to that of the timber wolves on the mainland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Examination of genetic markers from DNA collected in wolf droppings shows that coastal wolves are more likely to be related to each other than to mainland wolves, despite the fact that the waterways between the two are easily crossed.\u00a0\u00a0Previous research has shown that coastal wolves have a different diet than their mainland cousins &#8211; for example, they consume up to 90 per cent sea food &#8211; and that the prevalence of certain parasites is also different between the two groups.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biomedcentral.com\/1472-6785\/14\/11\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in the journal\u00a0<em>BCM Ecology\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>June 9, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #1155cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.web.uvic.ca\/~darimont\/people\/chris-darimont\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Darimont<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, University of Victoria, British Columbia<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New genetic information affirms what members of the Heiltsuk First Nation have long known: the islands off British Columbia host a population of \u2018coastal wolves\u2019 that is distinct but related to that of the timber wolves on the mainland. Examination of genetic markers from DNA collected in wolf droppings shows that coastal wolves are more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[39,174,170,113,125,1274,215,917,909],"class_list":["post-1899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-animal-behaviour","tag-animals","tag-biodiversity","tag-biology","tag-british-columbia","tag-dna","tag-environment","tag-evolution","tag-genetics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_0131.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-uD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1911,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions\/1911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}