História evolutiva e dinâmica demográfica de Cavia intermedia (Mammalia: Rodentia) inferida através de abordagem genômica

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Ano de defesa: 2015
Autor(a) principal: Escalona, Manuel Adrian Riveros lattes
Orientador(a): Bonatto, Sandro Luis lattes
Banca de defesa: Não Informado pela instituição
Tipo de documento: Dissertação
Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
Idioma: por
Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia
Departamento: Faculdade de Biociências
País: Brasil
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Link de acesso: http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/6216
Resumo: Insular populations have always been the subject of interest for ecological and genetic studies. The insular Cavia intermedia is one of the rarest mammals in the world, with an average census size of about 40 individuals, corroborated by an extremely low genetic diversity and effective population size (Ne). Here, we used restricted site-associated DNA sequencing (RAD-seq) to obtain genome wide sequence data of C. intermedia and its continental sister species, C. magna to study their molecular diversity and demographic history. We have generated approximately 10 millions of useable reads of 300 bp for 20 individuals each of both species. However, both using the Cavia porcellus draft genome as a reference or de novo approaches and applying stringent filters for quality and missing data, only about a hundred loci could be used. This final dataset generated widely different molecular diversity and divergence time values between methods of analyses, some compatible with the previous studies (e.g., Ne ~60 for C. intermedia) but some with significantly larger values. We suggest that to obtain a high quality and very informative dataset it would be necessary to significantly increase the sequence data as well as apply other assembly approaches.