Correction: Evolutionary history of Carnivora (Mammalia, Laurasiatheria) inferred from mitochondrial genomes

Abstract

Figs 2 and 3 in the original article [1] are incorrect. Figs 2A, 2B, 3A, and 3B respectively should have been individual figures, rather than two consolidated figures. The authors have provided correct versions of Fig 2A, 2B, 3A, and 3B as new figures below. Figs 5 and 6 correspond with the originally published Fig 2, and Figs 7 and 8 corresponds with the originally published Fig 3. Please view Figs 5-8 here.

Whole genome analysis of clouded leopard species reveals an ancient divergence and distinct demographic histories

“…37,38 Periods of marine transgressions would have facilitated the isolation of Sundaland from mainland Asia, assuming a model in which an ancestral population of clouded leopards was already distributed in the two regions. Our mean divergence age of 5.1 Mya is much earlier than previous estimates of 1.41 Mya and 2.86 Mya derived using smaller mitochondrial and nuclear datasets, 6,14 but is consistent with phylogenetic and historical biogeographic analyses based on combined fossil, morphological, and molecular evidence showing that a majority of pantherine lineages diversified during the Miocene and that the earliest splits among the lineages, including Neofelis, occurred in Asia. 39 The estimated divergence time between the mainland and Sunda clouded leopards is consistent with the intraspecific or interspecific ages of other forest-dependent mammal or vertebrate taxa that diversified between mainland Asia and Sundaland.…”

“…12,13 Previous molecular dating analyses suggest that Neofelis and Panthera diverged $5 million years ago (Mya) during the Late Miocene/Early Pliocene. [12][13][14] Because of their highly elusive natures, the ecology and habitat requirements of clouded leopards are not well known. However, clouded leopards appear to predominantly inhabit primary and secondary evergreen tropical rainforests but have also been found in other habitats such as mangrove swamps.…”