"Puma concolor, a large American cat species, occupies the most extensive range of any New World terrestrial mammal, spanning 100 degrees of latitude from the to the . ... Genomic DNA specimens from 315 pumas of specified geographic origin (261 contemporary and 54 museum specimens) were collected for molecular genetic and phylogenetic analyses of three mitochondrial gene sequences (16S rRNA, ATPase-8, and NADH-5) plus composite microsatellite genotypes (10 feline loci). ... The marked uniformity of mtDNA and a reduction in microsatellite allele size expansion indicates that North American pumas derive from a recent ( circa 10,000 years ago) replacement and recolonization by a small number of founders who themselves originated from a centrum of puma genetic diversity in eastern South America 200,000-300,000 years ago. The recolonization of North American pumas was coincident with a massive late Pleistocene extinction event that eliminated 80% of large vertebrates in North America and may have extirpated pumas from that continent as well."
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s (Puma concolor) are the largest cats native to the Americas. The cougar (also known as the puma, mountain lion, panther, catamount, catamountain, painter, Mexican lion, or red tiger) was given the name Felis concolor by Linnaeus. However, molecular genetic studies indicate that that the cougar belongs to a genus more closely related to the (Herpailurus yagouaroundi) and to the (Acinonyx jubatus) than to the (Felis catus). The name for the cougar is Klandagi (i.e., "Lord of the Forest"). Accord
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