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Genomic legacy of the African cheetah
PaperThis study sequenced the cheetah genome and documented its extreme genetic uniformity, a legacy of severe historical bottlenecks. The authors found very low genome-wide diversity, including in immune-…
Dobrynin P, Liu S, Tamazian G, et al. · Genome Biology · 2015
Research overview: niche partitioning among sympatric big cats
OverviewWhere several large cats share a landscape, they coexist by partitioning resources along axes of prey size, habitat, and activity. This overview synthesizes research across continents showing how tige…
Research overview: the puma lineage of cheetah, puma, and jaguarundi
OverviewOne of the eight felid lineages groups three superficially different cats: the puma, the cheetah, and the jaguarundi. This overview explains how molecular phylogenetics revealed this surprising relati…
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…
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