Table 3. Extracted data of cytochrome b gene patristic distances for 1,140 bp in the 5 species that were applied to the partial Mantel test; from Marmi et al. [25].

	E. lutris	L. lutra	N. vison	M. itatsi
L. lutra	18.4
N. vison	24.4	24.4
M. itatsi	22.0	22.1	18.6
M. sibirica	22.1	22.1	18.7	6.4

The accession numbers of National Center for Biotechnology Information for samples used in making the phylogenetical distance matrix from cytochrome b analyses by Marmi et al. [25] are as follows: M. sibirica, AB026108, AB051242, AB051243; M. itatsi, AB026104; N. vison, AB026109, AF057129; L. lutra, AF057124, X94923; E. lutris, AB051244, AF057120, X94924.