Whole-genome sequences shed light on the demographic history and contemporary genetic erosion of free-ranging jaguar (<i>Panthera onca</i>) populations

Gustavo P. Lorenzana; Henrique V. Figueiró; Christopher B. Kaelin; Gregory S. Barsh; Jeremy Johnson; Elinor Karlsson; Ronaldo G. Morato; Dênis A. Sana; Laury Cullen; Joares A. May; Edsel A. Moraes; Daniel L.Z. Kantek; Leandro Silveira; William J. Murphy; Oliver A. Ryder; Eduardo Eizirik

doi:10.1016/j.jgg.2021.10.006

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Whole-genome sequences shed light on the demographic history and contemporary genetic erosion of free-ranging jaguar (Panthera onca) populations

doi: 10.1016/j.jgg.2021.10.006

a Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, PUCRS. School of Health and Life Sciences, Porto Alegre, RS 90619, Brazil;
b HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, AL 35806, USA;
c Vertebrate Genome Biology, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA;
d CENAP/ICMBio, Atibaia, SP 12952, Brazil;
e PPG Biologia Animal, Instituto de Biociências, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, RS 90650, Brazil;
f Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas, Teodoro Sampaio, SP 19280, Brazil;
g UniSul, Tubarão, SC 88704, Brazil;
h Instituto Pró-Carnívoros, Atibaia, SP 12945, Brazil;
i Instituto Biotrópicos, Diamantina, MG, 39100, Brazil;
j Estação Ecológica de Taiamã, ICMBio, Cáceres, MT 78200, Brazil;
k Instituto Onça-pintada - Jaguar Conservation Fund, Mineiros, GO 75830, Brazil;
l Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA;
m San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research, San Diego, CA 92027, USA;
n Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, PUCRS. School of Health and Life Sciences, Porto Alegre, RS 90619, Brazil;
o Instituto Pró-Carnívoros, Atibaia, SP 12945, Brazil

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This study was supported by CNPq/Brazil, INCT-EECBio/Brazil and CAPES/Brazil. We thank S.-J. Luo, Y.-C. Liu and M. de Manuel for help with data on genomic diversity of tigers and lions.

Received Date: 2021-08-09
Accepted Date: 2021-10-21
Rev Recd Date: 2021-10-20
Publish Date: 2021-11-09

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