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Sequence variation in the mitochondrial DNA control region of wild African cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus).
Heredity - 1 Mar 2001
Freeman A R, MacHugh D E, McKeown S, Walzer C, McConnell D J, Bradley D G
Abstract excerpt
Five hundred and twenty-five bp of mitochondrial control region were sequenced and analysed for 20 Acinonyx jubatus and one Felis catus. These sequences were compared with published sequences from another domestic cat, 20 ocelots (Leopardus pardalus) and 11 margays (Leopardus weidii). The intraspecific population divergence in cheetahs was found to be less than in the other cats. However variation was present and...
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