Search publications of the members of the Royal Belgian institute of natural Sciences
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Benchtop μXRF as a tool for speleothem trace elemental analysis: Validation, limitations and application on an Eemian to early Weichselian (125–97 ka) stalagmite from Belgium
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Cave dripwater isotopic signals related to the altitudinal gradient of Mount-Lebanon: implication for speleothem studies
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Reconstructing seasonality through stable-isotope and trace-element analyses of the Proserpine stalagmite, Han-sur-Lesse cave, Belgium: indications for climate-driven changes during the last 400 years
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Earthquake-related speleothem damages: observations from the 2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan, China
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Comments on'U-Pb dated flowstones restrict South African early hominin record to dry climate phases'(Pickering et al. Nature 2018; 565: 226-229)
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La teneur en CO2 de l’air des grottes de Wallonie augmente plus vite que celle de l’atmosphère libre-Variations saisonnières, évolution semi-séculaire et flux de CO2
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Speleothem record from Pentadactylos cave (Cyprus): high-resolution insight into climatic variations during MIS 6 and MIS 5
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Speleothem record from Pentadactylos cave (Cyprus): new insights into climatic variations during MIS 6 and MIS 5 in the Eastern Mediterranean
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Modélisation 3D par imagerie lidar et analyse structurale de la Salle du Dôme des Grottes de Han-sur-Lesse (Belgique, Ardenne)
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Datation des spéléofacts: le cas de Bruniquel
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Corrigendum to" Evidence for solar influence in a Holocene speleothem record (Père Nöel cave, SE Belgium)"[Quat. Sci. Rev. 192 (2018) 249-262]
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SISALv2: a comprehensive speleothem isotope database with multiple age–depth models
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La Grotte du Pont d’Arcole (Hastière). Dépôts et relation avec l’enfoncement de la Meuse.
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First fossil record of Mustelus aff. punctulatus Risso, 1826: new evidence for a smooth-hound shark population in the Late Miocene North Sea Basin
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The bats of the Congo and of Rwanda and Burundi Revisited (Mammalia: Chiroptera)
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The complete phylogeny of extant pangolins: scaling up the molecular tracing of the most trafficked mammals on earth
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Genetic turnovers and northern survival during the last glacial maximum in European brown bears
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Consequences of past climate change and recent human persecution on mitogenomic diversity in the arctic fox
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Ancient DNA suggests modern wolves trace their origin to a Late Pleistocene expansion from Beringia
- Abstract Grey wolves (Canis lupus) are one of the few large terrestrial carnivores that have maintained a wide geographical distribution across the Northern Hemisphere throughout the Pleistocene and Holocene. Recent genetic studies have suggested that, despite this continuous presence, major demographic changes occurred in wolf populations between the Late Pleistocene and early Holocene, and that extant wolves trace their ancestry to a single Late Pleistocene population. Both the geographical origin of this ancestral population and how it became widespread remain unknown. Here, we used a spatially and temporally explicit modelling framework to analyse a data set of 90 modern and 45 ancient mitochondrial wolf genomes from across the Northern Hemisphere, spanning the last 50,000 years. Our results suggest that contemporary wolf populations trace their ancestry to an expansion from Beringia at the end of the Last Glacial Maximum, and that this process was most likely driven by Late Pleistocene ecological fluctuations that occurred across the Northern Hemisphere. This study provides direct ancient genetic evidence that long-range migration has played an important role in the population history of a large carnivore, and provides insight into how wolves survived the wave of megafaunal extinctions at the end of the last glaciation. Moreover, because Late Pleistocene grey wolves were the likely source from which all modern dogs trace their origins, the demographic history described in this study has fundamental implications for understanding the geographical origin of the dog.
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Ancient DNA suggests modern wolves trace their origin to a Late Pleistocene expansion from Beringia
