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SUBMITTER: Meachen JA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3306717 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Meachen Julie A JA Samuels Joshua X JX
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20120227 11
Living coyotes modify their behavior in the presence of larger carnivores, such as wolves. However, little is known about the effects of competitor presence or absence on morphological change in coyotes or wolves over long periods of time. We examined the evolution of coyotes and wolves through time from the late Pleistocene, during which many large carnivorous species coexisted as predators and competitors, to the Recent; this allowed us to investigate evolutionary changes in these species in r ...[more]