Caragiulo Anthony, Dougherty Eric, Soto Sofia, Rabinowitz Salisa, Amato George
a Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History , New York , NY , USA .
b Department of Environmental Science , Policy, & Management, University of California-Berkeley , Berkeley , CA , USA , and.
Mitochondrial DNA A DNA Mapp Seq Anal. 2016;27(2):914-5. doi: 10.3109/19401736.2014.926483. Epub 2014 Jul 10.
The jaguar (Panthera onca) is the largest felid in the Western hemisphere, and the only member of the Panthera genus in the New World. The jaguar inhabits most countries within Central and South America, and is considered near threatened by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. This study represents the first sequence of the entire jaguar mitogenome, which was the only Panthera mitogenome that had not been sequenced. The jaguar mitogenome is 17,049 bases and possesses the same molecular structure as other felid mitogenomes. Bayesian inference (BI) and maximum likelihood (ML) were used to determine the phylogenetic placement of the jaguar within the Panthera genus. Both BI and ML analyses revealed the jaguar to be sister to the tiger/leopard/snow leopard clade.
美洲豹(Panthera onca)是西半球最大的猫科动物,也是新世界中豹属的唯一成员。美洲豹栖息于中美洲和南美洲的大多数国家,被国际自然保护联盟列为近危物种。本研究首次测定了完整的美洲豹线粒体基因组序列,该线粒体基因组是豹属中唯一尚未测序的。美洲豹线粒体基因组有17049个碱基,与其他猫科动物的线粒体基因组具有相同的分子结构。采用贝叶斯推断(BI)和最大似然法(ML)来确定美洲豹在豹属中的系统发育位置。BI和ML分析均显示,美洲豹是老虎/豹/雪豹分支的姐妹群。