Autosomal and mtDNA Markers Affirm the Distinctiveness of Lions in West and Central Africa

• Laura D. Bertola ,

  * E-mail: bertola@cml.leidenuniv.nl

  Affiliations Leiden University, Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), PO Box 9518, 2300, RA Leiden, The Netherlands, Leiden University, Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL), PO Box 9505, 2300, RA Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Laura Tensen,

  Affiliation University of Johannesburg, Department of Zoology, PO Box 524, Johannesburg, Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa

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• Pim van Hooft,

  Affiliation Wageningen University, Resource Ecology Group, Droevendaalsesteeg 3a, 6708, PB Wageningen, The Netherlands

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• Paula A. White,

  Affiliation Center for Tropical Research, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, La Kretz Hall Suite 300, 619 Charles E. Young Dr. East, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095–1496, United States of America

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• Carlos A. Driscoll,

  Affiliation Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, 248 001, Uttarakhand, India

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• Philipp Henschel,

  Affiliation Panthera, 8 West 40th Street, 18th Floor, New York, NY, 10018, United States of America

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• Anthony Caragiulo,

  Affiliation Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, 79th Street at Central Park West, New York, NY, 10024, United States of America

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• Isabela Dias-Freedman,

  Affiliation Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, 79th Street at Central Park West, New York, NY, 10024, United States of America

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• Etotépé A. Sogbohossou,

  Affiliations Leiden University, Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), PO Box 9518, 2300, RA Leiden, The Netherlands, Laboratoire d’Ecologie Appliquée, Université d’Abomey-Calavi, Champ de Foire 03 BP 1974, Cotonou, Benin

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• Pricelia N. Tumenta,

  Affiliations Leiden University, Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), PO Box 9518, 2300, RA Leiden, The Netherlands, Centre for Environment and Development Studies in Cameroon, University of Dschang, BP 410, Maroua, Cameroon

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• Tuqa H. Jirmo,

  Affiliation Leiden University, Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), PO Box 9518, 2300, RA Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Geert R. de Snoo,

  Affiliation Leiden University, Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), PO Box 9518, 2300, RA Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Hans H. de Iongh ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hans H. de Iongh, Klaas Vrieling

  Affiliations Leiden University, Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), PO Box 9518, 2300, RA Leiden, The Netherlands, University of Antwerp, Department Biology, Evolutionary Ecology Group, Groenenborgerlaan 171, 2020, Antwerpen, Belgium

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• Klaas Vrieling

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hans H. de Iongh, Klaas Vrieling

  Affiliation Leiden University, Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL), PO Box 9505, 2300, RA Leiden, The Netherlands

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