A Pervasive History of Gene Flow in Madagascar's True Lemurs (Genus Eulemur).

ABSTRACT: In recent years, it has become widely accepted that interspecific gene flow is common across the Tree of Life. Questions remain about how species boundaries can be maintained in the face of high levels of gene flow and how phylogeneticists should account for reticulation in their analyses. The true lemurs of Madagascar (genus Eulemur, 12 species) provide a unique opportunity to explore these questions, as they form a recent radiation with at least five active hybrid zones. Here, we present new analyses of a mitochondrial dataset with hundreds of individuals in the genus Eulemur, as well as a nuclear dataset containing hundreds of genetic loci for a small number of individuals. Traditional coalescent-based phylogenetic analyses of both datasets reveal that not all recognized s

SUBMITTER: Everson KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10298339 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature