Rediscovery of Roosevelt's Barking Deer (Muntiacus rooseveltorum)

Amato, George; Egan, Mary G.; Schaller, George B.; Baker, Richard H.; Rosenbaum, Howard C.; Robichaud, William; DeSalle, Rob

doi:10.2307/1383308

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“…This should not be controversial since species descriptions have always been based on diagnostic characters, and it is not obvious why 5 A new species of muntjac from Myanmar (Bremer, 1988(Bremer, , 1994 morphological diagnostic characters would be qualitatively superior to DNA characters. This approach, though not clearly articulated, has been used successfully in a number of recent studies (Dung et al, 1993;Tuoc et al, 1994;Amato et al, 1998;Giao et al, 1998). However, the studies by Dung et al (1993), Tuoc et al (1994), and in particular Giao et al (1998) suffer from poor taxonomic sampling for both describing new species and phylogenetic analysis.…”

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“…However, the studies by Dung et al (1993), Tuoc et al (1994), and in particular Giao et al (1998) suffer from poor taxonomic sampling for both describing new species and phylogenetic analysis. Specifically the lack of data, or even discussion of the sympatric M. rooseveltorum, weakened the conclusions of the Giao et al (1998) paper until the completion of the Amato et al (1998) study. Additional problems with this study include not using Elaphodus as an outgroup for phylogenetic analysis, confusion as to how they define what constitutes a species or subspecies, and morphological assessments on incomplete samples presented as analysis.…”

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“…Bone samples were decalcified by soaking in 0.5 M EDTA pH 8.5 for several hours at 37°C prior to extraction and precipitation as described above. Details of the extraction procedures used for museum specimens appear in Rosenbaum et al (1997) and Amato et al (1998).…”

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A new species of muntjac, Muntiacus putaoensis (Artiodactyla: Cervidae) from northern Myanmar

Amato

Egan

Rabinowitz

1999

Animal Conservation

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A new species of barking deer (Muntiacus spp.) is described from northern Myanmar. Diagnostic DNA character data are presented along with preliminary information on morphology, distribution, and phylogenetic relationships. This discovery contributes significantly to our knowledge of this poorly studied group and highlights the importance of continued field surveys in remote regions. Similar studies have resulted in a significant increase in conservation efforts in other parts of South-east Asia, and argue for additional conservation efforts for this region.

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A new species of muntjac, Muntiacus putaoensis (Artiodactyla: Cervidae) from northern Myanmar

Amato

Egan

Rabinowitz

1999

Animal Conservation

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“…(a) Muntjac barcoding: Muntiacus rooseveltorum example The muntjac study (Amato et al 1999) used DNA barcoding for species discovery in a framework that is Figure 2. The taxonomic circle.…”

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The unholy trinity: taxonomy, species delimitation and DNA barcoding

DeSalle

Egan

Siddall

2005

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Recent excitement over the development of an initiative to generate DNA sequences for all named species on the planet has in our opinion generated two major areas of contention as to how this 'DNA barcoding' initiative should proceed. It is critical that these two issues are clarified and resolved, before the use of DNA as a tool for taxonomy and species delimitation can be universalized. The first issue concerns how DNA data are to be used in the context of this initiative; this is the DNA barcode reader problem (or barcoder problem). Currently, many of the published studies under this initiative have used tree building methods and more precisely distance approaches to the construction of the trees that are used to place certain DNA sequences into a taxonomic context. The second problem involves the reaction of the taxonomic community to the directives of the 'DNA barcoding' initiative. This issue is extremely important in that the classical taxonomic approach and the DNA approach will need to be reconciled in order for the 'DNA barcoding' initiative to proceed with any kind of community acceptance. In fact, we feel that DNA barcoding is a misnomer. Our preference is for the title of the London meetings-Barcoding Life. In this paper we discuss these two concerns generated around the DNA barcoding initiative and attempt to present a phylogenetic systematic framework for an improved barcoder as well as a taxonomic framework for interweaving classical taxonomy with the goals of 'DNA barcoding'.

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“…The Indian muntjac Muntiacus muntjak is distributed throughout south and south-east Asia while all other muntjacs have restricted distributions in China, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam and Lao P.D.R (Amato et al 1999a;Rabinowitz et al 1999). In the last decade, surveys in south-east Asia have led to the description of three muntjac species new to science (Tuoc et al 1994;Schaller and Vrba 1996;Giao et al 1998;Amato et al 1999a;Rabinowitz et al 1999) and the rediscovery of the Roosevelt's muntjac Muntiacus rooseveltorum (Amato et al 1999b). It has been speculated that these little-known forest muntjacs speciated in the isolated mountain forests of this region (Amato et al 1999a).…”

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Molecular evidence for the occurrence of the leaf deer Muntiacus putaoensis in Arunachal Pradesh, north-east India

James

Ramakrishnan

2007

Conserv Genet

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The discovery of the leaf deer Muntiacus putaoensis in northern Myanmar has added to the growing list of large mammals recently discovered in remote, unexplored parts of south and south-east Asia. Its subsequent discovery in eastern Arunachal Pradesh, India, based on morphometric analyses of two skulls collected from local hunters, doubled the size of its known east-west range, which is significant for a newly-discovered and poorly understood species. However, ambiguity remained regarding several other partial skulls and dried skin samples collected during subsequent surveys. The sympatric occurrence of the Indian muntjac Muntiacus muntjak further complicates species identification based primarily on morphometry. In this paper, we develop molecular genetic analyses that can unambiguously identify muntjac species. Further, we test and apply our methods to unknown skin samples to confirm the occurrence of the leaf deer in Arunachal Pradesh. Finally, we use our samples and genetic data from three mitochondrial markers to establish phylogenetic affinities between these samples and other extant members of the Muntiacus genus. Our approach, which combines the use of specific primers and phylogenetic analyses, is generally applicable towards the detection of cryptic biodiversity in unexplored and species-rich areas like north-east India.

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Rediscovery of Roosevelt's Barking Deer (Muntiacus rooseveltorum)

Cited by 28 publications

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A new species of muntjac, Muntiacus putaoensis (Artiodactyla: Cervidae) from northern Myanmar

A new species of muntjac, Muntiacus putaoensis (Artiodactyla: Cervidae) from northern Myanmar

The unholy trinity: taxonomy, species delimitation and DNA barcoding

Molecular evidence for the occurrence of the leaf deer Muntiacus putaoensis in Arunachal Pradesh, north-east India

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