Recent genetic connectivity and clinal variation in chimpanzees

Autor: Roman M. Wittig, Vianet Mihindou, Yisa Ginath Yuh, Nikki Tagg, Kevin Lee, Kathryn J. Jeffery, Christopher Orbell, Villard Ebot Egbe, Mimi Arandjelovic, Ammie K. Kalan, Emily Neil, R. Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar, Kevin E. Langergraber, Els Ton, Daniela Hedwig, Anthony Agbor, Laura Kehoe, David Morgan, Linda Vigilant, Fiona A. Stewart, Emma Bailey, Rebecca Chancellor, Tobias Deschner, Annemarie Goedmakers, Alhaji M. Siaka, Anne Laudisoit, Christophe Boesch, Veronika Städele, Heather Cohen, Liliana Pacheco, Hjalmar S. Kühl, Paula Álvarez-Varona, Christopher D. Barratt, Sorrel Jones, Emmanuel Danquah, Sonia Nicholl, Aaron S. Rundus, Lucy Jayne Ormsby, Jacob Willie, Alex K. Piel, Anne-Céline Granjon, Sergio Marrocoli, Emmanuel Ayuk Ayimisin, Jack D. Lester, Jessica Junker, Samuel Angedakin, Maureen S. McCarthy, Magloire Kambale Vyalengerera, Manasseh Eno-Nku, Joost van Schijndel, Parag Kadam, Erin G. Wessling, Gregory Brazzola, Michael Kaiser, Josephine Head, Martha M. Robbins, Geoffrey Muhanguzi, Klaus Zuberbuehler, Crickette M. Sanz, Juan Lapuente, Ivonne Kienast, Paula Dieguez, Paolo Gratton, Mattia Bessone, Lilah Sciaky, Kyle Yurkiw
Přispěvatelé: Lester, Jack D [0000-0002-0390-9792], Vigilant, Linda [0000-0003-4509-1260], Dieguez, Paula [0000-0002-6951-2771], Bessone, Mattia [0000-0002-8066-6413], Goedmakers, Annemarie [0000-0002-6398-4778], Hernandez-Aguilar, R Adriana [0000-0002-9539-8669], Jeffery, Kathryn J [0000-0002-2632-0008], Jones, Sorrel [0000-0002-3579-7254], Kadam, Parag [0000-0002-6534-4205], Kehoe, Laura [0000-0001-6260-7893], Laudisoit, Anne [0000-0001-7626-9426], Neil, Emily [0000-0001-8156-2344], Nicholl, Sonia [0000-0001-8720-2411], Pacheco, Liliana [0000-0001-7085-6064], Sanz, Crickette [0000-0003-2018-2721], Städele, Veronika [0000-0002-5381-2198], Stewart, Fiona [0000-0002-4929-4711], Wittig, Roman M [0000-0001-6490-4031], Yuh, Yisa Ginath [0000-0003-4537-2636], Boesch, Christophe [0000-0001-9538-7858], Kühl, Hjalmar S [0000-0002-4440-9161], Arandjelovic, Mimi [0000-0001-8920-9684], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, University of St Andrews. School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St Andrews. Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciences, University of St Andrews. Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolution
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
0106 biological sciences
Classification and taxonomy
Medicine (miscellaneous)
Evolutionary biology
Subspecies
Evolutionary ecology
01 natural sciences
Gene flow
Biology (General)
Phylogeny
0303 health sciences
education.field_of_study
Habitat fragmentation
Behavior
Animal
Genetic structure
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Engineering sciences. Technology
Settore BIO/05
BF Psychology
Pan troglodytes
QH301-705.5
Population
NDAS
BF
Biology
010603 evolutionary biology
General Biochemistry
Genetics and Molecular Biology
Article
Evolution
Molecular
03 medical and health sciences
QH301
Genome Components
Species Specificity
Animals
Genotyping and haplotyping
education
Ecosystem
030304 developmental biology
Isolation by distance
Genetic diversity
QL
QH
Genetic Variation
Genetics
Population
Animal Migration
Gene-Environment Interaction
Structural variation
Human medicine
Microsatellite Repeats
Zdroj: Communications Biology
Communications Biology, Vol 4, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2021)
ISSN: 2399-3642
Popis: Funder: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (Max Planck Society); doi: https://doi.org/10.13039/501100004189
Funder: Max Planck Society Innovation Fund Heinz L. Krekeler Foundation
Much like humans, chimpanzees occupy diverse habitats and exhibit extensive behavioural variability. However, chimpanzees are recognized as a discontinuous species, with four subspecies separated by historical geographic barriers. Nevertheless, their range-wide degree of genetic connectivity remains poorly resolved, mainly due to sampling limitations. By analyzing a geographically comprehensive sample set amplified at microsatellite markers that inform recent population history, we found that isolation by distance explains most of the range-wide genetic structure of chimpanzees. Furthermore, we did not identify spatial discontinuities corresponding with the recognized subspecies, suggesting that some of the subspecies-delineating geographic barriers were recently permeable to gene flow. Substantial range-wide genetic connectivity is consistent with the hypothesis that behavioural flexibility is a salient driver of chimpanzee responses to changing environmental conditions. Finally, our observation of strong local differentiation associated with recent anthropogenic pressures portends future loss of critical genetic diversity if habitat fragmentation and population isolation continue unabated.
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