Research published in BMC Ecology and Evolution presents genomic evidence that refutes the hypothesis that the endangered Bornean banteng is a distinct species.
A) exists as three geographically isolated groups , which correspond with the three described banteng subspecies. Consistent with the prior mitochondrial-based analysis of the Bornean subspecies, we replicate the paraphyletic mitochondrial structure of banteng , finding that the Bornean banteng lineage is nested within that of the gaur.
The results show clustering of all the distinct species, including notably, the Bornean banteng with the Javan bantengs . To further evaluate a phylogenetic affiliation at the autosomal level, we used the same genomic dataset to create an ASTRAL-III nuclear phylogeny, allowing scaffold-based evaluation of the support for alternative topologies using DiscoVista.
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