“…Several other species of felines have been recently studied based on mitochondrial genes as markers to assess different aspects in these animals, besides those already mentioned (e.g., population structure, evolutionary history, hybridization rates and introgression): Panthera leo ssp (Barnett et al, 2009), Acinonyx jubatus (Charrau et al, 2011), Prionailurus bengalensis and Felis chaus (Mukherjee et al, 2010), Felis silvestris (Hertwig et al, 2009;Eckert et al, 2010), Neofelis diardi (Wilting et al, 2011), among others. Trigo et al, (2008) employed mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences and nine microsatellite loci to identify and characterize a hybrid zone between two Neotropical felids, Leopardus geoffroyi and L. tigrinus, both of which are well-established species having diverged from each other c. 1 million years ago.…”