Divergence and introgression in small apes, the genus Hylobates, revealed by reduced representation sequencing.

ABSTRACT: Gibbons of the genus Hylobates, which inhabit Southeast Asia, show great diversity and comprise seven to nine species. Natural hybridisation has been observed in several species contact zones, but the history and extent of hybridisation and introgression in possibly historical and the current contact zones remain unclear. To uncover Hylobates species phylogeny and the extent of introgression in their evolution, genotyping by random amplicon sequencing-direct (GRAS-Di) was applied to 47 gibbons, representing seven Hylobates species/subspecies and two outgroup gibbon species. Over 200,000 autosomal single-nucleotide variant sites were identified. The autosomal phylogeny supported that divergence from the mainland species began ~3.5 million years ago, and subsequently occurred among the Sunda

SUBMITTER: Matsudaira K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8405704 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature