Population Genomics of Japanese Macaques (Macaca fuscata): Insights Into Deep Population Divergence and Multiple Merging Histories.

ABSTRACT: The influence of long-term climatic changes such as glacial cycles on the history of living organisms has been a subject of research for decades, but the detailed population dynamics during the environmental fluctuations and their effects on genetic diversity and genetic load are not well understood on a genome-wide scale. The Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata) is a unique primate adapted to the cold environments of the Japanese archipelago. Despite the past intensive research for the Japanese macaque population genetics, the genetic background of Japanese macaques at the whole-genome level has been limited to a few individuals, and the comprehensive demographic history and genetic differentiation of Japanese macaques have been underexplored. We conducted whole-genome sequencing of 64 Japan

SUBMITTER: Higashino A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11735745 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature