Asiatic Lion - Data, Pictures & Videos

[tigerluver]

For the first post, for your quote from the website, I ask for the same thing you asked me, the results. 

Though, this study that you brought up which I didn't know the exats of (SJ O'Brien et al. study): http://dobzhanskycenter.bio.spbu.ru/pdf/...ooBiol.pdf , affects my view.
So now we have 2 studies that says no inbreeding depression, while two say there is. I like the O'brien study the most, like as you say, has wild speicmens. I can't access the citations that criticize Shivaji's study, so I won't discount or support that one any further yet. Do you have the link?

Edit: One point I overlooked on the discrepancy between the Shivaji study and the O'Brien study is interpretation of the results. Shivaji takes O'brien's and his own data and says low genetic variability is a species trait rather than a new effect. O'Brien interprets low genetic variability as solely a new effect of inbreeding. I believe he chose this interpretation because of the RAPD from Shankarnarayanan et al. (Wikipedia falsely credits Shivaji with RAPD study), which concluded, " lions of India based on randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD), microsatellite analysis of five repeat loci and multilocus fingerprinting indicated a higher degree of genetic heterozygosity than reported and they concluded that the low genetic variability may be a characteristic feature of these species and not the result of intensive inbreeding." So that explains why about a decade later this researcher proposed a deviant view from the O'brien and Wildt studies. Which do you side with and why? Reply