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4 summaries matching “acinonyx” in Felid Genetics & Evolution
Genomic Legacy of the African Cheetah, Acinonyx jubatus
PaperThis study sequenced and analyzed the cheetah genome, providing molecular confirmation of the species' exceptional genetic impoverishment. The authors reported very low genome-wide heterozygosity, ext…
Pavel Dobrynin, Stephen J. O'Brien, et al. · Genome Biology · 2015
Research overview: Miracinonyx, the American cheetah-like cat
OverviewThe extinct American cheetah of the genus Miracinonyx superficially resembled the living cheetah, with adaptations for fast pursuit of swift prey such as the pronghorn. This overview surveys genetic a…
Research overview: the king cheetah from cryptic species to single gene
OverviewFirst described in the early twentieth century from southern Africa, the king cheetah's bold blotches and stripes led some naturalists to propose it as a distinct species, Acinonyx rex. This overview…
Research overview: the puma lineage uniting puma, jaguarundi and cheetah
OverviewOne of the most counterintuitive results of felid molecular phylogenetics was that the cheetah, long treated as a unique outlier, belongs to a New World puma lineage alongside the puma and the jaguaru…