Phylogeny of Muntiacus (Cervidae) based on mitochondrial DNA restriction maps.
Mitochondrial DNA restriction maps for 12 restriction enzymes of four species of muntjacs--Indian muntjac (M. muntjak), Gongshan muntjac (M. gongshanensis), black muntjac (M. crinifrons), and Chinese muntjac (M. reevesi)--were compared to estimate the phylogenetic relationships among them. Phylogenetic trees were constructed by both distance and parsimony methods. The two resulting trees share a similar topology, which indicates that the black muntjac and the Gongshan muntjac are closely related, followed by the Chinese muntjac; the Indian muntjac is the sister taxon to all the other muntjacs.
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Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Evolution, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, People's Republic of China.
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D000818:Animals; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial / Q000235:genetics*; D014644:Genetic Variation; D018668:Muntjacs / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics*; D010802:Phylogeny; D015183:Restriction Mapping
D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial