Population genetics of wild Macaca fascicularis with low-coverage shotgun sequencing of museum specimens.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) are widely distributed throughout the mainland and islands of Southeast Asia, making them a useful model for understanding the complex biogeographical history resulting from drastic changes in sea levels throughout the Pleistocene. Past studies based on mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) of long-tailed macaque museum specimens have traced their colonization patterns throughout the archipelago, but mitogenomes trace only the maternal history. Here, our objectives were to trace phylogeographic patterns of long-tailed macaques using low-coverage nuclear DNA (nDNA) data from museum specimens.

Methods

We performed population genetic analyses and phylogenetic reconstruction on nuclear single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) fro

SUBMITTER: Yao L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8329942 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature