Browsing Biological & Environmental Sciences by Author "Barnett, Ross"
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Mitogenomics of the extinct cave lion, Panthera spelaea (Goldfuss, 1810), resolve its position within the panthera cats
Barnett, Ross; Mendoza, Marie Lisandra Zepeda; Soares, André Elias Rodrigues; Ho, Simon Y W; Zazula, Grant; Yamaguchi, Nobuyuki; Shapiro, Beth; Kirillova, Irina V; Larson, Greger; Gilbert, M Thomas P... more authors ... less authors ( Ubiquity Press , 2016 , Article)The extinct cave lion (Panthera spelaea) was an apex predator of the Pleistocene, and one of the largest felid species ever to exist. We report the first mitochondrial genome sequences for this species, derived from two ... -
Phylogeography of lions (Panthera leo ssp.) reveals three distinct taxa and a late Pleistocene reduction in genetic diversity
Barnett, Ross; Shapiro, Beth; Barnes, Ian; Ho, Simon Y.W.; Burger, Joachim; Yamaguchi, Nobuyuki; Higham, Thomas F.G.; Wheeler, H. Todd; Rosendahl, Wilfried; Sher, Andrei V.; Sotnikova, Marina; Kuznetsova, Tatiana; Baryshnikov, Gennady F.; Martin, Larry D.; Harington, C. Richard; Burns, James A.; Cooper, Alan... more authors ... less authors ( Blackwell Publishing Ltd , 2009 , Article)Lions were the most widespread carnivores in the late Pleistocene, ranging from southern Africa to the southern USA, but little is known about the evolutionary relationships among these Pleistocene populations or the ... -
Revealing the maternal demographic history of Panthera leo using ancient DNA and a spatially explicit genealogical analysis
Barnett, Ross; Yamaguchi, Nobuyuki; Shapiro, Beth; Ho, Simon Y.W.; Barnes, Ian; Sabin, Richard; Werdelin, Lars; Cuisin, Jacques; Larson, Greger... more authors ... less authors ( BioMed Central Ltd. , 2014 , Article)Background: Understanding the demographic history of a population is critical to conservation and to our broader understanding of evolutionary processes. For many tropical large mammals, however, this aim is confounded by ... -
Toads in Qatar: The species present and their probable original source
Nobuyuki, Yamaguchi; Vasconcelos, Raquel; Mohamed, Toqa; Abdel-Fattah Ahmed, Talaat; Alatalo, Juha Mikael; Barnett, Ross... more authors ... less authors ( Elsevier , 2019 , Article)Toads are likely to have been introduced to Qatar, but little information is available on toad populations in the country, including the species present and their probable origin. Therefore, we collected tissue samples for ...