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10 summaries in Taxonomy & Systematics on jaguar
Genome-wide signatures of complex introgression and adaptive evolution in big cats
PaperThis genomic study sequenced multiple Panthera species and found pervasive evidence that gene flow between lineages, not just simple branching, shaped big cat evolution. The authors detected introgres…
Figueiro HV, Li G, Trindade FJ, et al. · Science Advances · 2017
Molecular evolution of mitochondrial sequences in the pantherine cats
PaperAn early molecular study of the big cats that used mitochondrial 12S rRNA and cytochrome b sequences to probe relationships within the Panthera group. This work was among the first to apply DNA sequen…
Janczewski DN, Modi WS, Stephens JC, O'Brien SJ · Molecular Biology and Evolution · 1995
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
Phylogeography and conservation genetics of jaguars (Panthera onca)
PaperThis study analyzed mitochondrial and microsatellite variation across the jaguar's range from Mexico to Argentina and found relatively shallow genetic structure with no support for the many traditiona…
Eizirik E, Kim JH, Menotti-Raymond M, et al. · Molecular Ecology · 2001
Research overview: felid biogeography and the Great American Biotic Interchange
OverviewThe presence of cats in South America results from the Great American Biotic Interchange, when the Isthmus of Panama connected the Americas and allowed northern mammals to disperse south. This overvie…
Research overview: is the jaguar a single subspecies?
OverviewHistorically the jaguar was divided into many subspecies, but molecular evidence supports treating it as essentially one continuous species. This overview reviews the debate, explaining that phylogeog…
Research overview: regional genetic structure in jaguars
OverviewAlthough jaguars are best treated as a single species, they do show some geographic genetic structure relevant to conservation. This overview surveys studies documenting differentiation across the jag…
Research overview: the jaguar's position among the big cats
OverviewThe jaguar, the only Panthera species in the Americas, occupies an informative position in big cat phylogeny. This overview explains how molecular data place the jaguar within the genus Panthera, clos…
Research overview: why leopard melanism is not a taxonomic trait
OverviewBlack panthers are melanistic leopards (or jaguars), and their existence is often misunderstood as indicating a separate species or subspecies. This overview explains the genetics of leopard melanism,…
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