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biorxiv2026-09-04mtDNApopulation geneticsconservation

Central European wolves now overlap, and mitochondrial haplotypes help name who moved where

A five-year Central European wolf campaign uses mitochondrial haplotypes plus microsatellites to show three ancestries (Central European/Baltic, Carpathian, Alpine) now sit in mosaic sympatry, with asymmetric immigration. The organelle is a lineage tag, not a respiratory-chain result.

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mtDNA · population genetics · conservation

Score 50/100BIORXIVhigh confidencemtDNA
50
Importance
50
Mito signal
25
Dysfunction
75
Evidence
15
Translational

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Finding. Wolves that used to live in separate Central European stories now share Czech and Slovak ground. A large consortium types mitochondrial haplotypes, microsatellites, and sex loci across five wolf years. Baltic-derived Central European animals dominate much of the Bohemian Massif. Carpathian animals dominate Slovakia. Alpine animals reach southern Bohemia. Mosaic sympatry is the new map. Immigration looks asymmetric.

Score 50. Conservation genealogy, not an organelle-function paper. High confidence in the sampling frame.

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Source preprint

Wolf microevolution in the melting pot: range expansion, population sympatry, dynamic mosaic admixture zone and asymmetric gene flow

10.64898/2026.09.02.748779

Šrutová J, Tkáčová N, Cetkovská E, Eliášová K, Veselovská L, Ungrová L, Montoya K, Škrobánek M, Matějů P, Duľa M, Vorel A, Mokrý J, Mikslová K, Collet S, Nowak C, Rolle F, Marucco F, Szewczyk M, Mysłajek R, Nowak S, Finďo S, Antal V, Kutal M, Jelínková J, Bolfíková BČ, Hulva P.

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