Fig. 2

Calibrated mitogenomic phylogeny of 25 leopard mitogenome sequences. Node support is indicated by Bayesian Posterior Probabilities, blue node bars indicate the 95% credibility interval of divergence times. The lower axis shows the estimated coalescence times in thousands of years. Colours indicate the locality of the samples; the unexpected placement of the Javan leopard is highlighted dark yellow. The three-letter code corresponds to the putative subspecies for each individual, following Miththapala et al. [25]; Uphyrkina et al., [19]; Diedrich [6]. Asterisks indicate the Late Pleistocene samples. The RAxML maximum likelihood phylogeny can be found in Additional file 1: Figure S1