Development of a SNP Panel for Geographic Assignment and Population Monitoring of Jaguars (<i>Panthera onca</i>).

ABSTRACT: The jaguar (Panthera onca) is an iconic top predator that is threatened by habitat loss and fragmentation, along with an emerging expansion of poaching for the illegal trade of live individuals and their parts. To address the need for tools that improve surveillance and monitoring of its remaining populations, we have developed a genome-enabled single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) panel targeting this species. From a dataset of 58 complete jaguar genomes, we identified and selected highly informative SNPs for geographic traceability, individual identification, kinship, and sexing. Our panel, named "Jag-SNP", comprises 459 SNPs selected from an initial pool of 13,373,949 markers based on the inter-biome F _ST, followed by rigorous filtering and addition of eight sex-

SUBMITTER: Zenato Lazzari G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12098306 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature