Historical Demography and Species Distribution Models Shed Light on Speciation in Primates of Northeast India.

ABSTRACT: Past climate change is one of the important factors influencing primate speciation. Populations of various species could have risen or declined in response to these climatic fluctuations. Northeast India harbors a rich diversity of primates, where such fluctuations can be implicated. Recent advances in climate modeling as well as genomic data analysis has paved the way for understanding how species accumulate at a particular geographic region. We utilized these methods to explore the primate diversity in this unique region in relation to past climate change. To ascertain the population level changes, we inferred the demographic history of nine species of primates found in Northeast India and compared it with species distribution models of Pliocene and Pleistocene period. Through this study

SUBMITTER: Trivedi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11850985 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature