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  • Title: Mitochondrial DNA distinction of northeastern China roe deer, Siberian roe deer, and European roe deer, to clarify the taxonomic status of northeastern China roe deer.
    Author: Xiao CT, Zhang MH, Fu Y, Koh HS.
    Journal: Biochem Genet; 2007 Feb; 45(1-2):93-102. PubMed ID: 17219081.
    Abstract:
    Partial sequences of the mitochondrial control region of northeastern China roe deer were analyzed to determine the degree of genetic diversity. Fourteen haplotypes were observed. The haplotype diversity was high (h = 0.872), nucleotide diversity was medium (p ( i ) = 0.0108), and the average Tamura-Nei nucleotide distance among them was 1.9%, indicating that genetic diversity of roe deer from northeastern China was relatively high and that the effective population size was large historically. To clarify the northeastern China roe deer's taxonomic status, these 14 haplotypes were compared with 31 haplotypes published in Genbank from Europe, Siberia, and Korea. The average genetic distance between haplogroups of northeastern China and European roe deer (5.8%) was more than twice that between northeastern China and Siberian roe deer (2.7%), indicating sufficient variation to consider roe deer of northeastern China and Siberia as a single species (Capreolus pygargus), distinct from European roe deer (Capreolus capreolus). This is the first presentation of mtDNA data for roe deer in northeastern China, which will be helpful in investigations of genetic diversity and clarifications of the taxonomic status of roe deer in the whole of China.
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