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Number of nucleotide changes inferred from maximum-likelihood reconstructed ancestral nodes
Wolf/coyote divergence refers to nucleotide changes between one random wolf and one random coyote sequence in Figure 1. Internal and terminal branches for wolves and for dogs are indicated in Figure 1.