Genomic Signatures of Island Colonisation in Highly Diverse Primates.

ABSTRACT: Understanding how small populations cope with loss of genetic diversity and deleterious variation is crucial to address the current biodiversity crisis. Insular populations are particularly interesting as they have often persisted at lower population sizes and higher inbreeding than their mainland counterparts. While the genome-wide consequences of inbreeding in threatened insular species have received some attention, comparative genomics between insular and mainland populations of widespread and genetically diverse species have rarely been performed. Yet, they are particularly well suited to inform about the consequences of drastic population declines from initially large populations-a phenomenon that is becoming increasingly common. The spot-nosed monkey (Cercopithecus petaurista), the C

SUBMITTER: Colmonero-Costeira I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12684299 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature