Figure 1.

Geographic distribution of the Puma concolor samples analyzed here. Blue lines indicate three major rivers. The different colors indicate the seven groups identified with the AMOVA (see text and Table 3 for details): Northern Central America + North America (NCA+NA, in light pink), Southern Central America (SCA, in dark pink), Northern South America (NSA, in dark green), Central-North-Eastern South America (CNESA, in medium green), Eastern South America (ESA, in light green), Central-Southern South America (CSSA, in light blue) and Southwestern South America (SWSA, in purple).