This image comes from this paper by Claudia Greco that shows that melanism in Italian wolves originated through crossbreeding with domestic dogs.
October 10, 2012 by SWestfall3
This image comes from this paper by Claudia Greco that shows that melanism in Italian wolves originated through crossbreeding with domestic dogs.
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[…] In the case of dogs and wolves, there has continued to be a small but not insignificant gene flow between wild and domestic populations. Black wolves in North America obtain their melanism from a mutation that was introduced into their population through breeding with domestic dogs, and now melanistic Italian wolves have been found to have exactly the same mutation that was also introd… […]