The Challenges and Relevance of Exploring the Genetics of North Africa’s “Barbary Lion” and the Conservation of Putative Descendants in Captivity

Figure 3

Approximate geographic distribution of unique mtDNA haplotypes in lions from control region (HVR) and cytochrome b (adapted from [12, 45]). Source countries for sampled lions of known origin are listed. The Great Rift Valley is shown as thick dark lines.