The Origin and Population History of the Endangered Golden Snub-Nosed Monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana)

• Published in: Molecular biology and evolution Vol. 36; no. 3; pp. 487 - 499
• Main Authors: Kuang, Wei-Min, Ming, Chen, Li, Hai-Peng, Wu, Hong, Frantz, Laurent, Roos, Christian, Zhang, Ya-Ping, Zhang, Cheng-Lin, Jia, Ting, Yang, Jing-Yuan, Yu, Li
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Oxford University Press 01.03.2019
• Subjects: Animal Distribution; Animals; Biogeography; Cercopithecidae - genetics; China; Chromosomes; Endangered animals; Endangered Species; Gene Flow; Genome, Mitochondrial; Genomes; Genomics; Hypotheses; Linkage Disequilibrium; Male; Monkeys; Phylogeny; Phylogeography; Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; Population; Populations; Rhinopithecus roxellana; Sex; Sex linkage; Somatic chromosomes; Y Chromosome; Y chromosomes; China; gene flow; demographic simulation; golden snub-nosed monkey; population structure; dispersal route

Abstract The origin and population history of the endangered golden snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana) remain largely unavailable and/or controversial. We here integrate analyses of multiple genomic markers, including mitochondrial (mt) genomes, Y-chromosomes, and autosomes of 54 golden mon...