Ancient mtDNA from the extinct Indian cheetah supports unexpectedly deep divergence from African cheetahs

• Main Authors: Rai, Niraj, Verma, Sunil Kumar, Gaur, Ajay, Iliescu, Florin Mircea, Thakur, Mukesh, Golla, Tirupathi Rao, Chandra, Kailash, Prakash, Satya, Tabasum, Wajeeda, Ara, Sreenivas, Singh, Lalji, Thangaraj, Kumarasamy, Jacobs, Guy S.
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Science::Biological sciences; Ecological Genetics; Phylogenetics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146171
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The Indian cheetah was hunted to extinction by the mid-20th century. While analysis of 139 bp of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) has confirmed that the Indian cheetah was part of the Asiatic subspecies (Acinonyx jubatus venaticus), the detailed relationships between cheetah populations remains unclear due...