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    Principal component analysis of European wolves using 67K single nucleotide polymorphism markers.

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    <p>Principal component analysis of European wolves using 67K single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers. a) Colourplot of all wolves (n = 177) where genetic similarity is represented by similar colours and spatial proximity. b) Individuals from Europe (excluding Italy and four outliers from southern Ukraine, n = 123) with the 1<sup>st</sup> and 2<sup>nd</sup> PC axes showing four main genetic clusters: <i>Dinaric-Balkan</i> – green: Croatia (n = 10), dark red: Bulgaria (n = 10), dark blue: Greece (n = 9); <i>Carpathian Mountains</i> – black: Slovakia (n = 1), turquoise: Western Ukraine (n = 10), orange: Polish Carpathian Mountains (n = 1); <i>Ukrainian Steppe</i> – yellow: Eastern Ukraine (n = 7), dark grey: Southern Ukraine (n = 5); <i>Northcentral Europe</i> – gray: Finland (n = 8), light green: Latvia (n = 10), blue: Russia (n = 15), red: Northern Belarus (n = 8), orange: Poland (except Polish Carpathian Mountains, n = 15), violet: Western Belarus (n = 6), dark green: Southern Belarus (n = 8). c) Individuals from Europe (excluding Italy and four outliers from southern Ukraine, n = 123) showing the 2<sup>nd</sup> and 3<sup>rd</sup> PC axes. Sampling and clusters as in b), except the Dinaric-Balkan cluster for which Croatia and Bulgaria/Greece formed separate groups.</p
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