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3 summaries matching “snow leopard” in Taxonomy & Systematics on clouded-leopard
Phylogeny of the great cats with fossil taxa and missing characters
PaperThis morphological study reconstructed relationships among the pantherine cats while explicitly incorporating fossil taxa and testing how missing data affect tree inference. Working from cranial and s…
Christiansen P · Cladistics · 2008
Research overview: the phylogenetic position of clouded leopards in Panthera
OverviewClouded leopards occupy a pivotal position as the sister group to the other big cats within the subfamily Pantherinae. This overview explains how molecular phylogenies consistently place the genus Neo…
Supermatrix and species-tree methods resolve relationships within Panthera
PaperRelationships among the big cats long resisted resolution because of short internal branches and conflicting markers. This study assembled a large multi-gene dataset and applied both concatenated supe…
Davis BW, Li G, Murphy WJ · Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution · 2010