| conservation genetics of the far eastern leopard (panthera pardus orientalis). | the far eastern or amur leopard (panthera pardus orientalis) survives today as a tiny relict population of 25-40 individuals in the russian far east. the population descends from a 19th-century northeastern asian subspecies whose range extended over southeastern russia, the korean peninsula, and northeastern china. a molecular genetic survey of nuclear microsatellite and mitochondrial dna (mtdna) sequence variation validates subspecies distinctiveness but also reveals a markedly reduced level of ... | 2008 | 12547918 |