Fig. 4: Maximum likelihood tree of P. pardus.

A Location of the Pleistocene available mtDNA sequences, B genomic similarity between El Mirón leopards and Caucasus P. pardus BAR001 from the Pleistocene is observed. Circles represent the P. pardus mitogenomes: El Mirón (purple), Baumannshöhle (green), and Mezmaiskaya (blue).