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Little variation, lots of repetition: mitogenomic diversity in African wild dogs.
Mitochondrial DNA. Part A, DNA mapping, sequencing, and analysis - 1 Jan 2025
Tensen Laura, Jansen van Vuuren Bettine, Groom Rosemary, du Plessis Cole, Fischer Klaus
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African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) are the sole representative of their genus, and form an ancestral lineage most closely related to Asian dholes (Cuon alpinus) and Ethiopian wolves (Canis simensis). They suffered tremendous demographic losses over the past decades and have low levels of mitochondrial (mtDNA) variation, previously measured with a 381 bp segment of the Control region (CR). In this study, we did a...
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