Phylogeography of lions (Panthera leo ssp.) reveals three distinct taxa and a late Pleistocene reduction in genetic diversity

  • Ross Barnett
  • , Beth Shapiro
  • , Ian Barnes
  • , Simon Y W Ho
  • , Joachim Burger
  • , Nobuyuki Yamaguchi
  • , Thomas F G Higham
  • , H Todd Wheeler
  • , Wilfried Rosendahl
  • , Andrei V Sher
  • , Marina Sotnikova
  • , Tatiana Kuznetsova
  • , Gennady F Baryshnikov
  • , Larry D Martin
  • , C Richard Harington
  • , James A Burns
  • , Alan Cooper

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1668-77
Number of pages10
JournalMolecular Ecology
Volume18
Issue number8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009

Keywords

  • Animals
  • DNA, Mitochondrial
  • Evolution, Molecular
  • Fossils
  • Genetic Variation
  • Genetics, Population
  • Geography
  • Lions
  • Phylogeny
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA
  • Species Specificity

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