The Landscape of Structural Variation in Aye-Ayes (Daubentonia madagascariensis).

ABSTRACT: Aye-ayes (Daubentonia madagascariensis) are one of the 25 most critically endangered primate species in the world. Endemic to Madagascar, their small and highly fragmented populations make them particularly vulnerable to both genetic disease and anthropogenic environmental changes. Over the past decade, conservation genomic efforts have largely focused on inferring and monitoring population structure based on single nucleotide variants to identify and protect critical areas of genetic diversity. However, the recent release of a highly contiguous genome assembly allows, for the first time, for the study of structural genomic variation (deletions, duplications, insertions, and inversions) which are likely to impact a substantial proportion of the species' genome. Based on whole-genome data f

SUBMITTER: Versoza CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12448223 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature