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Conservation genetics of the Far Eastern leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis).
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Uphyrkina O, Miquelle D, Quigley H, Driscoll C, O'Brien S J
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The Far Eastern or Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis) survives today as a tiny relict population of 25-40 individuals in the Russian Far East. The population descends from a 19th-century northeastern Asian subspecies whose range extended over southeastern Russia, the Korean peninsula, and northeastern China. A molecular genetic survey of nuclear microsatellite and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequence...
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