Table 1.

Application of mtDNA markers for conservation of wild animals.

No. of samples	No. of populations	Taxa	Study	Marker	Reference
21	1 Captive	Sun bear	Evolutionary significant unit	CR	Onuma et al. (2006)
47	3 Populations	Black muntjac	Population structure	CR	Wu et al. (2006)
40	1 Population	Chinese water deer	Genetic diversity	CR	Hu et al. (2006)
5	–	Roe, deer, horse, cow	Illegal hunting	Cyt b	An et al. (2007)
73	1 Population	Houbara bustard	Genetic diversity	CR	Idaghdour et al. (2004)
95	17 Locations	African sable	Genetic structure	CR, Cyt b	Pitra et al. (2002)
18 + 54	2 Locations	Rock-wallaby	Population structure	CR	Eldridge et al. (2001)
46	10 Sources	Tibetan gazelle	Genetic diversity	CR, Cyt b	Zhang and Jiang (2006)
17 + 42	Captive + field	Indian leopard	Species identification	12S rRNA	Pandey et al. (2007)
182	14 Zoos diff. countries	Oryx dammah	Genetic diversity	CR	Iyengar et al. (2007)
19 + 16 + 4 + 3 + 18	5 Locations	Oryx beisa	Genetic diversity	CR, Cyt b	Masembe et al. (2006)
21 + 3	2 Locations	Oryx leucoryx	Genetic diversity	CR	Khan et al. (in press)