Publication Type: | Journal Article |
Year of Publication: | 2005 |
Authors: | Wei, K, Zhang, Z‐H, Zhang, W‐P, Shen, F‐J, He, G‐X, Hou, R, Xie, Z, Liu, N‐L, Yue, B‐S |
Journal: | Journal of Natural History |
Volume: | 39 |
Date Published: | 2005 |
ISBN Number: | 0022-2933 |
Keywords: | Panthera tigris |
Abstract: | This paper represents the first study of the genetic diversity of captive South China tigers Panthera tigris amoyensis by sequence variation in a fragment of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) NADH dehydrogenase subunit 5 (ND5) gene. Two haplotypes (haplotype I and haplotype II) were identified and the captive population had a bias towards haplotype I. This subspecies as a whole demonstrated an extremely low level of genetic diversity with the nucleotide diversity of 0.057±0.021%. The mtDNA ND5 variations detected in the present study could provide significant information to the studbook data of the South China tiger. |
URL: | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930600579031 |
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