Geographical isolation can often lead to speciation, and two disconnected populations of the same species living in drastically different bioclimatic regions provide an opportunity understand process speciation. The Woolly wolf is found cold-arid, Trans- Himalayan landscape, while Indian inhabits semi-arid grasslands Central India. Both lineages wolves from India have generated scientific debat...

This paper presents the use of a new meta-heuristic technique namely gray wolf optimizer (GWO) which is inspired from gray wolves’ leadership and hunting behaviors to solve optimal reactive power dispatch (ORPD) problem. ORPD problem is a well-known nonlinear optimization problem in power system. GWO is utilized to find the best combination of control variables such as generator voltages, tap c...

The golden jackal (Canis aureus) is one of the most common and widely distributed carnivores in India but phylogeographic studies on the species have been limited across its range. Recent studies have observed absence of mitochondrial (mt) DNA diversity in European populations while some North African populations of golden jackal were found to carry gray wolf (Canis lupus lupaster) mtDNA lineag...

The efficiency of a photovoltaic (PV) system under partial shading conditions (PSCs) is primarily determined by how the PV panels are connected to load. Various architectures have been developed improve power processing capability and thus conversion efficiency. In this article, central string architecture considered, performance characteristics obtained using optimization techniques such as gr...

Domestic dogs have been shown to have multiple alleles of the Agouti Signal Peptide (ASIP) in exon 4 and we wished to determine the level of polymorphism in the common wild canids of Canada, wolves and coyotes, in comparison. All Canadian coyotes and most wolves have banded hairs. The ASIP coding sequence of the wolf did not vary from the domestic dog but one variant was detected in exon 4 of c...

This is the first documented evidence of rabies in the Indian wolf (Canis lupus pallipes) to date. The study describes the laboratory confirmation of rabies in wolf from the southern Indian state of Karnataka by the direct fluorescent antibody (DFA) test and a direct rapid immunohistochemistry test (dRIT). The PCR amplified products of complete N and G genes of this wolf RABV were sequenced and...

The gray wolf (Canis lupus) is one of the few large predators to survive the Late Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions [1]. Nevertheless, wolves disappeared from northern North America in the Late Pleistocene, suggesting they were affected by factors that eliminated other species. Using skeletal material collected from Pleistocene permafrost deposits of eastern Beringia, we present a comprehensiv...

Taeniid species represent relevant pathogens in human and animals, circulating between carnivorous definitive hosts and a variety of mammalian intermediate hosts. In Portugal, however, little is known about their occurrence and life cycles, especially in wild hosts. An epidemiological survey was conducted to clarify the role of the Iberian wolf as a definitive host for taeniid species, includin...