Complete mitochondrial genomes reveal phylogeny relationship and evolutionary history of the family Felidae

Abstract

ABSTRACT. Many mitochondrial DNA sequences are used to estimate phylogenetic relationships among animal taxa and perform molecular phylogenetic evolution analysis. With the continuous development of sequencing technology, numerous mitochondrial sequences have been released in public databases, especially complete mitochondrial DNA sequences. Using multiple sequences is better than using single sequences for phylogenetic analysis of animals because multiple sequences have sufficient information for evolutionary process reconstruction. Therefore, we performed phylogenetic analyses of 14 species of Felidae based on complete mitochondrial genome sequences, with Canis familiaris as an outgroup, using neighbor joining, maximum likelihood, maximum parsimony, and Bayesian inference methods. The consensus phylogenetic trees supported the monophyly of Felidae, and the family could be divided into 2 subfamilies, Felinae and Pantherinae. The genus Panthera and species tigris were also studied in detail. Meanwhile, the divergence of this family was estimated by phylogenetic analysis using the Bayesian method with a relaxed molecular clock, and the results shown were consistent with previous studies. In summary, the evolution of Felidae was reconstructed by phylogenetic analysis Phylogenetic analysis of Felidae using mitochondrial genomes based on mitochondrial genome sequences. The described method may be broadly applicable for phylogenetic analyses of anima taxa.

Comprehensive species set revealing the phylogeny and biogeography of Feliformia (Mammalia, Carnivora) based on mitochondrial DNA

“…Within family Felidae, our results agree with other recent studies, indicating that the two monophyletic subfamilies Felinae and Pantherinae composed the family [ 14 , 61 ]. Six species of subfamily Pantherinae were represented in a progressive evolutionary model and were strongly supported in our analyses.…”

“…Six species of subfamily Pantherinae were represented in a progressive evolutionary model and were strongly supported in our analyses. Genus Neofelis and genus Panthera displayed a sister relationship, and Uncia uncia nested within Panthera , which is consistent with the results of Zhang and Zhang [ 61 ] and Johnson et al [ 14 ]. Our analysis confirmed the phylogenetic relationship of Panthera species as ( P .…”

“…pardus )))). The taxonomies of Uncia uncia included a part of Panthera , which were also consistent with many previous mitochondrial phylogeny studies [ 14 , 24 , 61 ], and we agree with Yu et al [ 70 ] that Unica is congeneric with Panthera .…”

GRaphical footprint based Alignment-Free method (GRAFree) for reconstructing evolutionary Traits in Large-Scale Genomic Features

“…We have selected various mitochondrial genome sequences sequenced by various researchers such as insects are selected from [8], [65], ray-finned fishes are selected from [61], [76], Aves data are selected from [19], [32], [53], and Mammalian data are selected from [31], [73], [74] [52]. We ignore those accession numbers which store some selected genes of mtDNA.…”

16S rRNA Gene Sequence Analysis of Snow Leopard, Gray Wolf, Horse and Bactrian Camel in Mongolia

“…Mitochondrial DNA sequences are the most common resource currently used for species identification and estimating phylogenetic relationships among animal taxa [7][8][9][10][11][12]. The reason is that firstly most cells have many mitochondria, secondly mutation rate is high, and thirdly limit of detection (LOD) is low [13].…”