RADseq data reveal a lack of admixture in a mouse lemur contact zone contrary to previous microsatellite results.

ABSTRACT: Microsatellites have been a workhorse of evolutionary genetic studies for decades and are still commonly in use for estimating signatures of genetic diversity at the population and species level across a multitude of taxa. Yet, the very high mutation rate of these loci is a double-edged sword, conferring great sensitivity at shallow levels of analysis (e.g. paternity analysis) but yielding considerable uncertainty for deeper evolutionary comparisons. For the present study, we used reduced representation genome-wide data (restriction site-associated DNA sequencing (RADseq)) to test for patterns of interspecific hybridization previously characterized using microsatellite data in a contact zone between two closely related mouse lemur species in Madagascar (Microcebus murinus and Mic

SUBMITTER: Poelstra JW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9364002 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature