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Mitogenomics of the extinct cave lion, Panthera spelaea (Goldfuss, 1810), resolve its position within the Panthera cats
- Abstract:
- The extinct cave lion (Panthera spelaea) was an apex predator of the Pleistocene, and one of the largest felid species ever to exist. We report the first mitochondrial genome sequences for this species, derived from two Beringian specimens, one of which has been radiocarbon dated to 29,860 ± 210 14C a BP. Phylogenetic analysis confirms the placement of the cave lion as the sister taxon to populations of the modern lion (P. leo). Using newly recovered stem pantherine fossils to calibrate a molecular clock, we estimate that P. spelaeaand P. leodiverged about 1.89 million years ago (95% credibility interval: 1.23–2.93 million years), highlighting the likely position of this extinct carnivore as a distinct species.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.5334/oq.24
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+ European Commission
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- Funder identifier:
- https://ror.org/00k4n6c32
- Grant:
- FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IEF-298820
- Programme:
- Seventh Framework Programme
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- Funder identifier:
- https://ror.org/03hz8wd80
- Grant:
- R52-A5062
- Publisher:
- Ubiquity Press
- Journal:
- Open Quaternary More from this journal
- Volume:
- 2
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 1-11
- Publication date:
- 2016-06-23
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-05-18
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2055-298X
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English
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- Barnett et al
- Copyright date:
- 2016
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- Copyright: © 2016 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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