title: Resolving the phylogenetic status and taxonomic relationships of the Hangul (Cervus elaphus hanglu) in the family Cervidae.
abstract: The Hangul (Cervus elaphus hanglu) is a "Least Concern" deer species, and it is the only survivor of the Red Deer group in the Indian subcontinent. The phylogenetic status of the Hangul relative to the other members of the family Cervidae is not known because sequence data are not available in public databases. Therefore, this study was carried out to determine the phylogenetic status and delineate the genetic boundaries of the Hangul with respect to the other Red Deer subspecies on the basis of cytochrome b gene sequence data (ca 421 bp). There are three major monophyletic groups of the Red Deer in the phylogenetic tree, which are referred to as the western (Hap-01 to Hap-10), eastern (Hap-11 to Hap-20) and tarim (Hap-21 to Hap-25) groups. The overall haplotype diversity and per-site nucleotide diversity were 0.9771 (±0.0523) and 0.0388 (±0.00261), respectively. In the phylogenetic tree, the Hangul clustered with the tarim group (Yarkand and Bactrian Red Deer) with a strong bootstrap support (92%) and was found to be genetically closer to the Bactrian Red Deer than to the Yarkand Red Deer. Our molecular analysis supported the idea that the Hangul diverged from the Bactrian Red Deer and migrated to India from Tajikistan approximately 1.2 MYA.
authors.affiliation: a Wildlife Institute of India , Chandrabani , Dehradun , Uttarakhand , India.|b Department of Zoology, Veer Kunwar Singh University , Arrah , Bihar , India.
authors.forename: Ved P
authors.initials: VP
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.affiliation: c Amity Institute of Wildlife Sciences, Amity University , Noida , Uttar Pradesh , India.
authors.forename: Mukesh
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Thakur
authors.affiliation: d Zoological Survey of India, NRC , Dehradun , Uttarakhand , India.
authors.forename: Ankita
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rajpoot
authors.affiliation: a Wildlife Institute of India , Chandrabani , Dehradun , Uttarakhand , India.
authors.forename: Bhim Dutt
authors.initials: BD
authors.lastname: Joshi
authors.affiliation: a Wildlife Institute of India , Chandrabani , Dehradun , Uttarakhand , India.
authors.forename: Parag
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Nigam
authors.affiliation: e Centre for Mountain Wildlife Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology , Srinagar , Jammu & Kashmir , India.
authors.forename: Khursheed
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ahmad
authors.affiliation: b Department of Zoology, Veer Kunwar Singh University , Arrah , Bihar , India.
authors.forename: Dhyanendra
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.affiliation: a Wildlife Institute of India , Chandrabani , Dehradun , Uttarakhand , India.
authors.forename: Surendra P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Goyal
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D045303:Cytochromes b / Q000235:genetics; D003670:Deer / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D050259:Genes, Mitochondrial; D014644:Genetic Variation; D006239:Haplotypes; D007194:India; D010802:Phylogeny; D058974:Phylogeography; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D045303:Cytochromes b
keywords: Cytochrome b gene; Hangul; Immigration; mtDNA; phylogenetic tree