Article
Genetic variation in Asiatic lions and Indian tigers.
Electrophoresis - 1 Aug 1997
Shankaranarayanan P, Banerjee M, Kacker R K, Aggarwal R K, Singh L
Abstract excerpt
Previous reports have suggested that Asiatic lions and tigers are highly inbred and exhibit very low levels of genetic variation. Our analyses on these species have shown much higher degrees of polymorphism than reported. Randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis of 38 Asiatic lions, whi...
Topics
- Animals
- Asia
- Biological Evolution
- Carnivora
- DNA
- DNA Fingerprinting
- DNA Probes
- Genetic Variation
- Hair
- Heterozygote
- Hybridization, Genetic
- India
- Lions
- Minisatellite Repeats
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA Technique
- Skin