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Mitochondrial Genetic Diversity and Structure of the Langur Population in a Complex Landscape of the Nepal Himalaya

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DIVERSITY-BASEL
卷 14, 期 2, 页码 -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/d14020069

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colobines; isolation by distance; isolation by resistance; phylogeography; Semnopithecus

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  1. Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program (STEP), China [2019QZKK0501]
  2. Chinese Academy of Sciences-The World Academy of Sciences (CAS-TWAS) President's PhD Fellowship program
  3. Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (ORIP) of the National Institutes of Health [P51OD010425]

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The genetic structure of the Nepal Himalayan langurs is shaped by the heterogeneous landscape features of the Himalayan region, resulting in significant genetic differentiation among different regions. This study provides insights into the evolutionary diversity of Himalayan langurs and highlights the importance of landscape heterogeneity in shaping genetic structure.
Heterogenous landscape features of the Himalayan region shape the genetic structure of animal populations by delimiting spatial patterns of dispersal and reproduction. Integrating population genetic analysis with landscape features could yield results that shed light on the evolutionary diversity of the taxa therein. This study assessed the population genetic structure of the Nepal Himalayan langurs (Semnopithecus spp.) across almost their entire distribution range in the complex landscape of the Nepal Himalaya using the mitochondrial cytochrome b (CYTB, 1140 bp), cytochrome c oxidase I (COI, 676 bp), and control region (1088 bp) sequences. Sequences were successfully retrieved from 52 samples belonging to 17 troops of wild Himalayan langurs in Nepal. The concatenated alignment of the three loci (2904 bp) defined 35 unique haplotypes with haplotype and nucleotide diversities of 0.961 +/- 0.017 and 0.0204 +/- 0.004, respectively. The results of a median joining haplotype network and of inter-haplotypic phylogenetic analyses revealed five major clades across the country: one from the eastern, two from the central, and two from the western region of Nepal. No haplotypes were shared among the regions. The Mantel test results indicated that the landscape heterogeneity of the Himalaya has shaped the population genetic structure of the Himalayan langurs due to the combined effects of isolation by resistance and isolation by distance phenomena. The strong population genetic structure and deep mtDNA divergence warrants a detailed taxonomic assessment of the Himalayan langurs across their entire range.

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