| mitochondrial dna polymorphism in subspecies of the japanese sika deer, cervus nippon. | variations in the mitochondrial dna (mtdna) of sika deer (cervus nippon) from seven localities in japan were examined to assess the degree of genetic differentiation among subspecies. the entire mtdna of c. n. centralis, which is about 16,600 base pairs in length, was cloned into plasmids. using various clones as hybridization probes, we constructed restriction maps of mtdna for 59 deer and identified six different mtdna genotypes. the genotypes observed in the subspecies centralis from honshu i ... | 1995 | 7608513 |