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The extent of nuclear single-copy DNA divergence between Muntiacus reevesi and Muntiacus muntjak vaginalis (Cervidae), a species pair showing extreme karyotype differences but striking morphological similarity, is 2%, as judged from the thermal stability of interspecific DNA-DNA hybrids. A comparison of the total nuclear DNA reassociation kinetics of the two species indicates a reduction of lowly repetitive sequences in M. m. vaginalis.
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Schmidtke, J., Brennecke, H., Schmid, M. et al. Evolution of muntjac DNA. Chromosoma 84, 187–193 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00399130
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