last one wolf that belongs to this species, was caught by hunters Nara Prefecture in 1905.
Survived only five scarecrows this unique species. The oldest exhibit, bought in the prefecture of Iwate in 1881, kept in the museum Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tokyo. The remaining four instances - the Tokyo National Museum, the Museum of the University of Wakayama, in the British Museum and the National Museum of Natural History in Leiden (the Netherlands).
The researchers said that the genome is missing form the wolf will help them study the history of the origin and ecology of this particular species and to compare it with the various breeds of dogs and other species of wolves.
Scientists believe that the origins of populations of wolves, which spread around the world, originated in Mongolia. Genome Research Japanese wolf show that 6% of its stascture differs from the genome of wolves continental rocks.

Source: inopressa.com