Fig 1.
Current distribution of Asian elephants in China with suggested corridors to link isolated populations.
Table 1.
Estimated sizes of Asian elephant populations in China over time.
Table 2.
Genetic diversity indices of Asian elephants based on mtDNA sequences.
Fig 2.
Statistical parsimony network of mtDNA haplotypes based on sequences constructed using the TCS program.
AA-AK & BA-BW haplotypes (grey) were from refs.34–35; all others were from present study, Abbreviations of haplotype names—NGH: Nangunhe (orange), ML: Mengla (green), SY: Shangyong (blue), SM: Simao/Pu’er (pink), MY: Mengyang (purple).
Fig 3.
Posterior assignment probabilities of Asian elephants in China determined by a Bayesian algorithm implemented in the program STRUCTURE v2.3.1 [32].
K = 4 was selected as the most likely number of clusters under the ln K and K difference comparison according to Evannoet al. [33]. Abbreviation of population names—NGH: Nangunhe, ML: Mengla, SY: Shangyong, SM: Simao/Pu’er, MY: Mengyang.