Population genomics of sika deer reveals recent speciation and genetic selective signatures during evolution and domestication.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Population genomic analysis can reconstruct the phylogenetic relationship and demographic history, and identify genomic selective signatures of a species. To date, fundamental aspects of population genomic analyses, such as intraspecies taxonomy, evolutionary history, and adaptive evolution, of sika deer have not been systematically investigated. Furthermore, accumulating lines of evidences have illustrated that incorrect species delimitation will mislead conservation decisions, and even lead to irreversible mistakes in threatened species.

Results

In this study, we resequenced 81 wild and 71 domesticated sika deer representing 10 main geographic populations and two farms to clarify the species delimitation, demographic and divergence histories, and adaptive evolut

SUBMITTER: Liu H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11987376 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature