ON THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION - A - THE TIGER (Panthera tigris)

[tigerluver]

(01-29-2019, 09:51 PM)BorneanTiger Wrote:

(01-29-2019, 05:34 PM)Shadow Wrote: Here is an article from December 2018. 

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"The research team, which sequenced the genomes of 32 representative tiger specimens, classified tigers into six genetically distinct subspecies. Researchers say the six subspecies include the Bengal, Amur, South China, Sumatran, Indochinese and Malayan tigers. Three other subspecies are extinct."


http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2018/10/29/genetic-study-confirms-6-tiger-subspecies-exist/#.XFBFvlwzZPY


That article is based on this from October 2018, but here you can see only summary if not willing to pay.

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)31214-4?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0960982218312144%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

Amongst other things, do they mean that the Caspian tiger is a different subspecies to the Amur tiger, despite being almost genetically identical?

I posted the paper (or at least about it) a while back if I remember correctly. It looks like only extant subspecies were analyzed, thus P. t. virgata or any of the other extinct subspecies are excluded from the study. I can't seem to get the paper attached directly here due to the size but here's is a download link. Reply