Multilocus phylogeny suggests a distinct species status for the Nepal population of Assam macaques(Macaca assamensis):implications for evolution and conservation

作     者：Laxman Khanal Mukesh Kumar Chalise Peng-Fei Fan Randall CKyes Xue-Long Jiang Laxman Khanal;Mukesh Kumar Chalise;Peng-Fei Fan;Randall C.Kyes;Xue-Long Jiang

作者机构：Central Department of ZoologyInstitute of Science and TechnologyTribhuvan UniversityKathmandu 44613Nepal State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and EvolutionKunming Institute of ZoologyChinese Academy of SciencesKunmingYunnan 650203China Nepal Biodiversity Research Society(NEBORS)Lalitpur 23513Nepal School of Life SciencesSun Yat-sen UniversityGuangzhouGuangdong 510275China Department of PsychologyGlobal Healthand AnthropologyCenter for Global Field Studyand Washington National Primate Research CenterUniversity of WashingtonSeattle 98195USA 

出 版 物：《Zoological Research》 (动物学研究（英文）)

年 卷 期：2021年第42卷第1期

页      面：3-13页

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学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 07[理学] 071002[理学-动物学] 

基　　金：This study was supported by the Chinese Academy of Sciences-World Academy of Sciences(CAS-TWAS)President’s PhD Fellowship Program to L.K.,Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program(2019QZKK0501) National Key Research and Development Plan(#2017YFC0505202)China.R.C.K.was supported in part by the Office of Research Infrastructure Programs(ORIP)of the National Institutes of Health through Grant Number P51OD010425 to the WaNPRC.L.K.was supported by the Rufford Small Grants(17666-1)of Rufford Foundation,UK partly for fieldworks We thank the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation and Department of Forest and Soil Conservation of the Government of Nepal for research permission,and our field assistants for their support in the field 

主　　题：Himalaya Macaques Paraphyletic sinica-group Taxonomy 

摘      要：Phylogenetic relationships within the sinica-group of macaques based on morphological,behavioral,and molecular characteristics have remained *** Nepal population of Assam macaques(Macaca assamensis)(NPAM),the westernmost population of the species,is morphologically distinct but has never been used in phylogenetic ***,the phylogenetic relationship of NPAM with other congeners was tested using multiple mitochondrial and Ychromosomal *** divergence times and evolutionary genetic distances among macaques were also *** revealed two major mitochondrial DNA clades of macaques under the sinica-group:the first clade included ***,***,and eastern subspecies of Assam macaque(*** assamensis);the second clade included *** together with species from the eastern and central Himalaya,namely,***,***,and *** the second-clade species,NPAM was the first to diverge from the other members of the clade around 1.9 million years *** results revealed that NPAM is phylogenetically distinct from the eastern Assam macaques and closer to other species and hence may represent a separate *** of its phylogenetic distinctiveness,isolated distribution,and small population size,the Nepal population of sinica-group macaques warrants detailed taxonomic revision and high conservation priority.