Genomic Signatures of Island Colonisation in Highly Diverse Primates
Colmonero Costeira, Ivo (Universidade de Coimbra. Departamento de Ciências da Vida)
Guschanski, Katerina (Uppsala University. Department of Ecology and Genetics, Animal Ecology)
Djaló, S. L. (Tabanka de Abu (Guinea-Bissau))
Fernandes, Nair (Tabanka de Anghôr (Guinea-Bissau))
Camará, Tomás (Cacine (Guinea-Bissau))
Farh, K. K.-H. (Illumina Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (USA))
Kuderna, L. F. K. (Illumina Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (USA))
Rogers, Jeffrey (Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Estats Units d'Amèrica). Department of Molecular and Human Genetics)
Marquès i Bonet, Tomàs 1975- (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont)
Bruford, M. W. (Cardiff University)
Russo, Isa-Rita (Cardiff University)
Jensen, Axel (Uppsala University. Department of Ecology and Genetics, Animal Ecology)
Ferreira da Silva, M. J. (Universidade do Porto. Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos)

Data:	2025
Resum:	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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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	Cercopithecini ; Conservation genomics ; Genetic load ; Guinea- Bissau ; Intraspecific variation
Publicat a:	Molecular ecology, (July 2025) , art. e17815, ISSN 1365-294X

DOI: 10.1111/mec.17815

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