The comprehensive genetic analysis of the population of Africa is different from the others in that it is composed of two quite distinct species, scientists said.
The scientific name of a Golden Retriever Golden Jackal. African researchers who anthus dog, or naming of African Golden Wolf.
"Our results indicate that the independently evolving lineages, Golden Jackal African Eurasian we checked all the data from the whole genome, genetic markers, showed that outstanding," said Klaus-Peter Koepfli, and preservation and conservation genetics, evolutionary biology of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.
He Koepfli genetic data more closely related to the gray wolf and the wolf with the African population, the more closely the two are linked to specific lineages.
The discovery of 35 to 36 dogs, wolves, foxes, Coyotes, foxes, which is called the mammalian family Canidae, raising the number of species that live.
It is found in the North and East Africa Wolf African Golden, and possibly all the way to southern Europe Eurasian Golden Jackal, Vietnam and South-East Asia, the Middle East and South-East Asia, the Middle East, something the researchers said.
"We in Africa have found no evidence that occur in Eurasia Golden Jackal," Koepfli said.
These two forms of a wolf, head shape and construction of the teeth and fur color, body size is very similar. And from the tropical forests of Southeast Asia, Africa, the dry savannah, the home of the winners. They eat a variety of foods from small mammals, omnivorous.
Eurasian Golden Jackal before about 600,000 years old, the researchers divided the ratio of the Golden Jackal department strain of African descent, including the gray wolf, and about 1.3 million years ago found that Coyotes.
Koepfli "Our study is one of the main meals are well-known and wide-ranging species such as golden jackals, it is possible to use the sample data from the entire genome, and made further discoveries, and the hidden biodiversity, are likely to find that."
Research published in the journal Current Biology.