Phylogenetic position of the extinct blue antelope, Hippotragus leucophaeus (Pallas, 1766) (Bovidae: Hippotraginae), based on complete mitochondrial genomes

Funding

GET was partially funded by FEDER and COMPETE and by FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology), under the project PTDC/BIA-BIC/4177/2012. We thank Dr. Hans Mejlon PhD, Curator of Entomology, Museum of Evolution – Zoology, Uppsala University for giving us access to the sample in question. We also thank Emeritus Professor Alfredo Rasteiro (University of Coimbra) for all his help in locating information on the H. niger variani specimen. Finally, we thank Vicente Campos Themudo for inspiration and allowing us the time to continue this research. Consensus mitochondrial genome sequence of H. leucophaeus has been deposited in GenBank with accession number MF043256. Bam files of the sequences generated in this project are available from NCBI’s Short Read Archive within BioProject PRJNA362292.