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Barnett, R.; Yamaguchi, N.; Shapiro, B.; Nijman, V.. |
In natural history collections throughout Europe, there are many old lion specimens of unknown origin. If these specimens can be shown to have originated from now-extinct populations their value would significantly increase, as would the value of the collections. Recently, a 200-year old mounted skeleton in the Zoological Museum Amsterdam has been identified as the extinct Cape lion Panthera leo melanochaita (Smith, 1842), based primarily on morphological information inferred from a painting of this specimen while it was still alive. To test this hypothesis, we used ancient DNA (aDNA) techniques to extract and sequence mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from this specimen, and compared the genetic results with previously published lion mtDNA sequences. Our results... |
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: India; Mitochondrial DNA; Panthera leo; Skull morphology; South Africa; 42.84. |
Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/226454 |
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