Inferring the molecular affinity of Indian pangolin with extant Manidae species based on mitochondrial genes: a wildlife forensic perspective

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Table 1. Observed mtDNA diversity based on Cytochrome b (331bp), 16S ribosomal RNA (477bp) and 12S ribosomal RNA (383bp) genes among seven pangolin species.

Species	MC	MP	MJ	PTRI	PTET	SG	ST	Overall
Cytochrome b (331bp)
V	16	5	6	14	26	5	11	83
C	144	140	139	147	128	128	123
SS-SNPs	15	2	3	13	12	5	13	63
S	X	X	X	8	7	5	0	20
Genbank similarity	100%	–	–	–	–	–
16S Ribosomal RNA (477bp)
V	16	15	14	16	18	16	14	109
C	399	387	397	393	392	386	398
SS-SNPs	7	11	6	8	8	7	7	53
S	X	2	X	2	1	X	2	7
Genbank similarity	99%	–	–		–	–	–
12S Ribosomal RNA (383bp)
V	10	6	13	15	7	12	12	75
C	317	323	31	322	317	322	321
SS-SNPs	5	4	6	5	6	6	5	36
S	X	X	X	X	X	X	2	2
Genbank similarity	100%	–	–			–

V: variable sites; C: conserve sites; SS-SNPs:Species-specific Single Nucleotide Polymorphic Sites; S: Singleton sites; MC: Manis crassicaudata; MP: Manis pentadactyla ; MJ: Manis javanica; PTRI: Phataginus tricuspis; PTET: Phataginus tetradactyla; SG: Smutsia gigantean; ST: Smutsia temminckii.

Figure 1. Illustrating the Cyt b (A), 16S rRNA (B) and 12S rRNA (C) sequences based Neighbour-Joining (NJ) tree analysis among seven pangolins by using MEGA 7 (Kumar et al, 2016b).

Kumar S, Stecher G, Tamura K. 2016b. MEGA7: molecular evolutionary genetics analysis version 7.0 for bigger datasets. Mol Bio and Evol. 33:1870–1874.

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