“…Nevertheless, the majority of genic diversity was contained within the smallest sample population structures. The observed differentiation in these cat populations was much smaller than that observed for other mammals (Massey and Joule, 1981;Patton and Feder, 1981;Chesser, 1983;Chesser et al, 1982;Navajas y Navarro and Britton-Davidian, 1989;Hartl et al, 1990Hartl et al, , 1991Daley, 1992;Bigalke et al, 1993;Preleuthner and Pinsker, 1993;Lorenzini et al, 1993;Corbet and Robinson, 1991;Corbet et al, 1994). From our results, the smallest sampling unit of population structure contained 95% of the total genetic variation.…”