Revealing the maternal demographic history of Panthera leo using ancient DNA and a spatially explicit genealogical analysis

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Barnett, Ross ^a,i   Yamaguchi, Nobuyuki ^b   Shapiro, Beth ^c   Ho, Simon Yw ^d   Barnes, Ian ^e   Sabin, Richard ^f   Werdelin, Lars ^g   Cuisin, Jacques ^h   Larson, Greger ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b QATAR UNIVERSITY   (Qatar)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^g SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^h MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Barbary lion; Extinction; Mitochondrial DNA; Panthera leo; Phylogeography

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; EXTINCTION; FELID; GENEALOGY; ISOLATED POPULATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN ACTIVITY;

CENTRAL AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; INDIA; MIDDLE EAST; SOUTHERN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA; AFRICA;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASIA; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FOSSIL; GENETICS; LION; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY;

AFRICA, EASTERN; ANIMALS; ASIA; BAYES THEOREM; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FOSSILS; LIONS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY;

MAMMALIA; PANTHERA LEO; PANTHERA LEO LEO;

EID: 84899744286     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-14-70     Document Type: Article

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