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SUBMITTER: Buckley-Beason VA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5618441 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Buckley-Beason Valerie A VA Johnson Warren E WE Nash Willliam G WG Stanyon Roscoe R Menninger Joan C JC Driscoll Carlos A CA Howard JoGayle J Bush Mitch M Page John E JE Roelke Melody E ME Stone Gary G Martelli Paolo P PP Wen Ci C Ling Lin L Duraisingam Ratna K RK Lam Phan V PV O'Brien Stephen J SJ
Current biology : CB 20061201 23
Among the 37 living species of Felidae, the clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa) is generally classified as a monotypic genus basal to the Panthera lineage of great cats. This secretive, mid-sized (16-23 kg) carnivore, now severely endangered, is traditionally subdivided into four southeast Asian subspecies (Figure 1A). We used molecular genetic methods to re-evaluate subspecies partitions and to quantify patterns of population genetic variation among 109 clouded leopards of known geographic orig ...[more]