China is one of the few countries in the World where most deer species reside. Amongst them, two stand out for the velveting purpose: sika deer (Cervus nippon) and wapiti (Cervus elaphus). In order to further investigate the genetic structure and systemic evolution of these two Chinese species, I screened total of 9 breeds of them using microsatellite markers and mtDNA cytochrome b gene sequence to analyze the genetic diversity of these breeds respectively, and obtained the following results.1. The DNA dive...