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Supermatrix and Species Tree Methods Resolve Relationships Within Panthera
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The big cats of the genus Panthera proved historically difficult to resolve because of rapid speciation and conflicting gene trees. This study assembled a large multilocus supermatrix and applied both…
Brian W. Davis, Gang Li, William J. Murphy · Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution · 2010
Supermatrix and species-tree methods resolve relationships within Panthera
Paper
Relationships 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 use of camera traps for estimating jaguar abundance and density using capture/recapture analysis
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Silver and colleagues adapted the tiger camera-trap framework to jaguars, whose unique rosette patterns serve as individual marks. Working in Belize and across Latin American sites, they detailed prac…
Scott C. Silver, Linde E. T. Ostro, Laura K. Marsh, Leonardo Maffei, Andrew J. Noss, et al. · Oryx · 2004
Wild Cats of the World: a synthesis of felid ecology
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This comprehensive reference compiled the biology, ecology, and conservation status of all the world's wild cat species, from the great roaring cats to the smallest felids. Drawing together field stud…
Sunquist, M. E., Sunquist, F. C. · University of Chicago Press · 2002