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(2) There was evidence from two analyses of a possible population expansion of the female lineages of G. vittata, which began between 635,000 and 370,000 years ago (ya) (mismatch distribution), whereas another procedure (BSP) detected population growth from 500,000 to 80,000 ya, with a population decrease around 40,000 ya. (3) Three genetically distinct groups were detected within G. vittata. One group was in Central America and northern Colombia, another in French Guiana, and the third in the rest of South America. (4) The origin of Neotropical Lyncodontini was older than in other studies (late Miocene, early Pliocene). (6) Some of the analyses detected a closer relationship between L. patagonicus and G. cuja than the latter with G. vittata. This could show that Galictis might be a paraphyletic genus. (7) Many analyses detected that the L. patagonicus haplotypes were the first to originate in situ in South America before the definitive closure of the isthmus of Panama, followed by those of G. cuja, with G. vittata showing the most recent haplotypes. 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