Molecular phylogeny of the extinct cave lion Panthera leo spelaea

Joachim Burger; Wilfried Rosendahl; Odile Loreille; Helmut Hemmer; Torsten Eriksson; Anders Götherström; Jennifer Hiller; Matthew J. Collins; Timothy Wess; Kurt W. Alt

doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2003.07.020

Molecular phylogeny of the extinct cave lion Panthera leo spelaea

Joachim Burger^*, Wilfried Rosendahl, Odile Loreille, Helmut Hemmer, Torsten Eriksson, Anders Götherström, Jennifer Hiller, Matthew J. Collins, Timothy Wess, Kurt W. Alt

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Abstract

To reconstruct the phylogenetic position of the extinct cave lion (Panthera leo spelaea), we sequenced 1 kb of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene from two Pleistocene cave lion DNA samples (47 and 32 ky B.P.). Phylogenetic analysis shows that the ancient sequences form a clade that is most closely related to the extant lions from Africa and Asia; at the same time, cave lions appear to be highly distinct from their living relatives. Our data show that these cave lion sequences represent lineages that were isolated from lions in Africa and Asia since their dispersal over Europe about 600 ky B.P., as they are not found among our sample of extant populations. The cave lion lineages presented here went extinct without mitochondrial descendants on other continents. The high sequence divergence in the cytochrome b gene between cave and modern lions is notable.

Original language	English
Journal	Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Volume	30
Issue number	3
Pages (from-to)	841-849
Number of pages	9
ISSN	1055-7903
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2003.07.020
Publication status	Published - Mar 2004

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