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Consequences of Demographic Reduction and Genetic Depletion in the Florida Panther
PaperThis study documented the genetic and physiological crisis of the Florida panther, a puma population isolated and reduced to a few dozen animals in southern Florida. The authors reported very low gene…
Melody E. Roelke, Janice S. Martenson, Stephen J. O'Brien · Current Biology · 1993
Genetic Restoration of the Florida Panther
PaperThis study evaluated the landmark 1995 intervention in which eight female Texas pumas were released into Florida to counteract the inbreeding crisis of the endangered Florida panther. Tracking the pop…
Warren E. Johnson, David P. Onorato, Stephen J. O'Brien, et al. · Science · 2010
Genomic Ancestry of the American Puma
PaperThis study used mitochondrial DNA and microsatellites across the puma's vast range from Canada to Patagonia to reconstruct the species' population history. The authors found surprisingly low genetic d…
Melanie Culver, Warren E. Johnson, Jill Pecon-Slattery, Stephen J. O'Brien · Journal of Heredity · 2000
Puma Genomes from North and South America Inform Conservation
PaperThis study sequenced complete genomes of pumas from across the Americas to examine how range-wide demographic history shaped genetic load and diversity. The authors confirmed the deep divergence betwe…
Nedda F. Saremi, Beth Shapiro, et al. · Nature Communications · 2019
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: convergent evolution of running adaptations in cats
OverviewThe cheetah and the extinct American cheetah independently evolved a slender, long-limbed body built for high-speed pursuit, a striking case of convergence given their separate ancestries within the p…
Research overview: genetic isolation of pumas in urban landscapes
OverviewPumas living near major cities, such as those in the Santa Monica and Santa Ana Mountains of California, are increasingly hemmed in by freeways and development, fragmenting their populations and restr…
Research overview: genetic rescue as a conservation strategy for felids
OverviewGenetic rescue refers to deliberately introducing individuals from another population to boost the fitness of a small, inbred population through new genetic variation. This overview surveys the concep…
Research overview: genetics and phylogeny of the jaguarundi
OverviewThe jaguarundi is an unusually shaped small cat of the Americas, with an elongated body and uniform coat, whose molecular placement revealed it as a close relative of the puma and cheetah within the p…
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…