Journal
JOURNAL OF HEREDITY
Volume 107, Issue 6, Pages 481-495Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esw044
Keywords
non-model organisms; RADseq; RNAseq; SNP array; target sequence capture; whole genome sequencing
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- National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology [1523568]
- Office of Naval Research Award [N00014-15-1-2773]
- Marie Slodowska Curie Fellowship - EU Horizon2020 program
- Royal Society Newton International Fellowships
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Studentship
- Fyssen Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
- University of Idaho College of Natural Resources
- European Science Foundation-Research Networking Programme ConGenOmics
- Swiss National Science Foundation Award [31003A-143393]
- Special Event Award from the American Genetic Association
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [31003A_143393] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
- NERC [bas0100035] Funding Source: UKRI
- Natural Environment Research Council [bas0100035] Funding Source: researchfish
- Div Of Biological Infrastructure
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1523568] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The dramatic increase in the application of genomic techniques to non-model organisms (NMOs) over the past decade has yielded numerous valuable contributions to evolutionary biology and ecology, many of which would not have been possible with traditional genetic markers. We review this recent progression with a particular focus on genomic studies of marine mammals, a group of taxa that represent key macroevolutionary transitions from terrestrial to marine environments and for which available genomic resources have recently undergone notable rapid growth. Genomic studies of NMOs utilize an expanding range of approaches, including whole genome sequencing, restriction site-associated DNA sequencing, array-based sequencing of single nucleotide polymorphisms and target sequence probes (e.g., exomes), and transcriptome sequencing. These approaches generate different types and quantities of data, and many can be applied with limited or no prior genomic resources, thus overcoming one traditional limitation of research on NMOs. Within marine mammals, such studies have thus far yielded significant contributions to the fields of phylogenomics and comparative genomics, as well as enabled investigations of fitness, demography, and population structure. Here we review the primary options for generating genomic data, introduce several emerging techniques, and discuss the suitability of each approach for different applications in the study of NMOs.
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