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Research overview: thermal environment and climate adaptation in captive felids
OverviewFelid species span tropical jungles, deserts and high mountains, so meeting their thermal needs in captivity, often in non-native climates, is a real welfare challenge. This overview surveys thermal w…
Research overview: three-dimensional and seasonal home-range estimation
OverviewStandard home ranges flatten an animal's world onto a two-dimensional map, but cats in mountainous terrain move through strongly three-dimensional space, and their ranges shift across seasons. This ov…
Research overview: transboundary snow leopard tracking challenges
OverviewSnow leopards routinely move across international borders, and this overview examines the practical and political challenges of tracking a cat whose range spans roughly a dozen countries with varying…
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
The tiger genome and comparative analysis with lion and snow leopard genomes
PaperThis study produced the first reference genome for the tiger and compared it with newly sequenced lion and snow leopard genomes to investigate big cat evolution and adaptation. The authors identified…
Cho YS, Hu L, Hou H, et al. · Nature Communications · 2013