Mitochondrial Genomes Suggest Rapid Evolution of Dwarf California Channel Islands Foxes (Urocyon littoralis)

• Courtney A. Hofman ,

  * E-mail: hofmanc@si.edu

  Affiliations Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, Program in Human Ecology and Archaeobiology, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America, Center for Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, National Zoological Park, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

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• Torben C. Rick,

  Affiliation Program in Human Ecology and Archaeobiology, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

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• Melissa T. R. Hawkins,

  Affiliations Center for Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, National Zoological Park, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

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• W. Chris Funk,

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

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• Katherine Ralls,

  Affiliation Center for Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, National Zoological Park, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

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• Christina L. Boser,

  Affiliation The Nature Conservancy, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Paul W. Collins,

  Affiliation Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

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• Tim Coonan,

  Affiliation National Park Service, Channel Islands National Park, Ventura, California, United States of America

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• Julie L. King,

  Affiliation Catalina Island Conservancy, Avalon, California, United States of America

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• Scott A. Morrison,

  Affiliation The Nature Conservancy, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Seth D. Newsome,

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

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• T. Scott Sillett,

  Affiliation Migratory Bird Center, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, National Zoological Park, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

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• Robert C. Fleischer,

  Affiliation Center for Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, National Zoological Park, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

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• Jesus E. Maldonado

  Affiliations Center for Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, National Zoological Park, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

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