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36 summaries matching “lion” in Felid Genetics & Evolution
Research overview: wildlife forensic genetics for cats
OverviewGenetic tools are increasingly used to combat the illegal trade in cats and their parts, from tiger bones and skins to confiscated live animals. This overview surveys how forensic genetics assigns sei…
Supermatrix and Species Tree Methods Resolve Relationships Within Panthera
PaperThe big cats of the genus Panthera proved historically difficult to resolve because of rapid speciation and conflicting gene trees. This study assembled a large multilocus supermatrix and applied both…
Brian W. Davis, Gang Li, William J. Murphy · Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution · 2010
The Evolutionary Dynamics of the Lion Revealed by Host and Viral Population Genomics
PaperThis study analyzed lion population structure and history using both the lions' own genetic markers and the genomes of feline immunodeficiency virus strains that infect them. By treating the virus as…
Agostinho Antunes, Stephen J. O'Brien, et al. · PLoS Genetics · 2008
The Evolutionary History of Extinct and Living Lions
PaperThis study combined genomes from modern lions across Africa and India with ancient DNA from extinct cave lions to reconstruct the deep history of the lion lineage. The authors estimated that cave lion…
Marc de Manuel, Ross Barnett, Tomas Marques-Bonet, et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2020
The Late Miocene Radiation of Modern Felidae: A Genetic Assessment
PaperThis landmark study reconstructed the evolutionary tree of all 37 living cat species using mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences combined with molecular dating calibrated by the fossil record. The a…
Warren E. Johnson, Eduardo Eizirik, Jill Pecon-Slattery, William J. Murphy, Agostinho Antunes, Emma Teeling, Stephen J. O'Brien · Science · 2006
The Tiger Genome and Comparative Analysis with Lion and Snow Leopard Genomes
PaperThis study produced the first reference genome of the tiger, sequenced from an Amur tiger, and compared it with newly generated lion and snow leopard genome data. The authors identified genetic signat…
Yun Sung Cho, Jong Bhak, et al. · Nature Communications · 2013