Article
Classification and phylogeny of sika deer (Cervus nippon) subspecies based on the mitochondrial control region DNA sequence using an extended sample set.
Mitochondrial DNA - 1 Jun 2015
Ba Hengxing, Yang Fuhe, Xing Xiumei, Li Chunyi
Abstract excerpt
To further refine the classification and phylogeny of sika deer subspecies, the well-annotated sequences of the complete mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control region of 13 sika deer subspecies from GenBank were downloaded, aligned and analyzed in this study. By reconstructing the phylogenetic tree with an extended sample set, the results revealed a split between Northern and Southern Mainland Asia/Taiwan lineages,...
Topics
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Bayes Theorem
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Databases, Genetic
- Deer
- Genetic Variation
- Phylogeny
- Sequence Alignment