RADseq data reveal a lack of admixture in a mouse lemur contact zone contrary to previous microsatellite results

Microsatellites have been a workhorse of evolutionary genetic studies for decades and are still commonly in use for estimating signatures of genetic diversity at the population and species level across a multitude of taxa. Yet, the very high mutation rate of these loci is a double-edged sword, confe...

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Published in:Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences Biological sciences, 2022-08, Vol.289 (1980), p.20220596-20220596
Main Authors: Poelstra, Jelmer W, Montero, B Karina, Lüdemann, Jan, Yang, Ziheng, Rakotondranary, S Jacques, Hohenlohe, Paul, Stetter, Nadine, Ganzhorn, Jörg U, Yoder, Anne D
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Language:English
Subjects:
Animals
Biological Evolution
Cheirogaleidae - genetics
Evolution
Hybridization, Genetic
Lemur - genetics
Madagascar
Microsatellite Repeats
Sequence Analysis, DNA
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Summary:Microsatellites have been a workhorse of evolutionary genetic studies for decades and are still commonly in use for estimating signatures of genetic diversity at the population and species level across a multitude of taxa. Yet, the very high mutation rate of these loci is a double-edged sword, conferring great sensitivity at shallow levels of analysis (e.g. paternity analysis) but yielding considerable uncertainty for deeper evolutionary comparisons. For the present study, we used reduced representation genome-wide data (restriction site-associated DNA sequencing (RADseq)) to test for patterns of interspecific hybridization previously characterized using microsatellite data in a contact zone between two closely related mouse lemur species in Madagascar ( and ). We revisit this system by examining populations in, near, and far from the contact zone, including many of the same individuals that had previously been identified as hybrids with microsatellite data. Surprisingly, we find no evidence for admixed nuclear ancestry. Instead, re-analyses of microsatellite data and simulations suggest that previously inferred hybrids were false positives and that the program NewHybrids can be particularly sensitive to erroneously inferring hybrid ancestry. Combined with results from coalescent-based analyses and evidence for local syntopic co-occurrence, we conclude that the two mouse lemur species are in fact completely reproductively isolated, thus providing a new understanding of the evolutionary rate whereby reproductive isolation can be achieved in a primate.
ISSN:0962-8452
1471-2954
DOI:10.1098/rspb.2022.0596