Revealing the Demographic History of the European Nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus).

ABSTRACT: A species' demographic history gives important context to contemporary population genetics and a possible insight into past responses to climate change; with an individual's genome providing a window into the evolutionary history of contemporary populations. Pairwise sequentially Markovian coalescent (PSMC) analysis uses information from a single genome to derive fluctuations in effective population size change over the last ~5 million years. Here, we apply PSMC analysis to two European nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus) genomes, sampled in Northwest and Southern Europe, with the aim of revealing the demographic history of nightjar in Europe. We successfully reconstructed effective population size over the last 5 million years. Our analysis shows that in response to global climate cha

SUBMITTER: Day G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11512156 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature