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Mitochondrial DNA restriction maps for 12 restriction enzymes of four species of muntjacs—Indian muntjac(M. muntjak), Gongshan muntjac(M. gongshanensis), black muntjac(M. crinifrons), and Chinese muntjac(M. reevesi)—were compared to estimate the phylogenetic relationships among them. Phylogenetic trees were constructed by both distance and parsimony methods. The two resulting trees share a similar topology, which indicates that the black muntjac and the Gongshan muntjac are closely related, followed by the Chinese muntjac; the Indian muntjac is the sister taxon to all the other muntjacs.
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Lan, H., Wang, W. & Shi, L. Phylogeny ofMuntiacus (Cervidae) based on mitochondrial DNA restriction maps. Biochem Genet 33, 377–388 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00554596
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