Ancient Mitogenomes Suggest Stable Mitochondrial Clades of the Siberian Roe Deer.

ABSTRACT: The roe deer (Capreolus spp.) has been present in China since the early Pleistocene. Despite abundant fossils available for detailed morphological analyses, little is known about the phylogenetic relationships of the fossil individuals to contemporary roe deer. We generated near-complete mitochondrial genomes for four roe deer remains from Northeastern China to explore the genetic connection of the ancient roe deer to the extant populations and to investigate the evolutionary history and population dynamics of this species. Phylogenetic analyses indicated the four ancient samples fall into three out of four different haplogroups of the Siberian roe deer. Haplogroup C, distributed throughout Eurasia, have existed in Northeastern China since at least the Late Pleistocene, while haplog

SUBMITTER: Deng MX 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8774404 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature