Genomic signatures of island colonisation in highly diverse primates
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- dc.contributor.author Colmonero-Costeira, Ivo
- dc.contributor.author Guschanski, Katerina
- dc.contributor.author Djaló, S. L.
- dc.contributor.author Fernandes, N.
- dc.contributor.author Camará, Tomás
- dc.contributor.author Farh, Kyle
- dc.contributor.author Kuderna, Lukas, 1989-
- dc.contributor.author Rogers, Jeffrey
- dc.contributor.author Marquès i Bonet, Tomàs, 1975-
- dc.contributor.author Bruford, Michael W.
- dc.contributor.author Russo, Isa-Rita M.
- dc.contributor.author Jensen, Axel
- dc.contributor.author Ferreira da Silva, Mª Rejane
- dc.date.accessioned 2025-09-15T06:19:57Z
- dc.date.available 2025-09-15T06:19:57Z
- dc.date.issued 2025
- dc.description Data de publicació electrònica: 09-07-2025
- dc.description.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 Campbell's monkey (Cercopithecus campbelli) and the green monkey (Chlorocebus sabaeus) are common and genetically diverse West African primates. Insular populations can be found at the Bijagós Archipelago, Guinea-Bissau. Here, we assessed the genome-wide diversity, inbreeding, genetic load and adaptive variation using whole genome sequencing data from insular and mainland populations. In the three species, island populations showed lower genome-wide diversity and higher inbreeding. Genetic drift has likely promoted the conversion of masked genetic load into realised load without increased purging of deleterious variation. Additionally, we found no evidence for accumulation of deleterious variation, suggesting that these populations are not yet at risk of extinction by genetic factors and may act as reservoirs of extant mainland genetic diversity. We highlight, however, that other anthropogenic factors are threatening these insular primates, and therefore conservation management should target their immediate threats and safeguard against additional loss of diversity.
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- dc.identifier.citation Colmonero-Costeira I, Guschanski K, Djaló SL, Fernandes N, Camará T, Farh KK, et al. Genomic signatures of island colonisation in highly diverse primates. Mol Ecol. 2025 Jul 9:e17815. DOI: 10.1111/mec.17815
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.17815
- dc.identifier.issn 0962-1083
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/71194
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher Wiley
- dc.relation.ispartof Mol Ecol. 2025 Jul 9:e17815
- dc.rights © 2025 The Author(s). Molecular Ecology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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- dc.subject.keyword Cercopithecini
- dc.subject.keyword Guinea‐Bissau
- dc.subject.keyword Conservation genomics
- dc.subject.keyword Genetic load
- dc.subject.keyword Intraspecific variation
- dc.title Genomic signatures of island colonisation in highly diverse primates
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