Fig. 1

Phylogenetic relationship between wisent and related species. a Genetic distances between taurine cattle and wisent, taurine cattle and bison, and wisent and bison, respectively, for a 500 kb sliding window across the genome. The trace for taurine cattle vs wisent lines largely coincides with the trace for taurine cattle vs bison. b Maximum likelihood trees of 4,278,251 nuclear fourfold degenerate sites and whole MT genomes with divergence time estimates. The scale indicate in green gives the estimates based on the human mtDNA mutation rate²²