205 newly assembled mitogenomes provide mixed evidence for rivers as drivers of speciation for Amazonian primates

Mitochondrial DNA remains a cornerstone for molecular ecology, especially for study species from which high-quality tissue samples cannot be easily obtained. Methods using mitochondrial markers are usually reliant on reference databases, but these are often incomplete. Furthermore, available mitochondrial genomes often lack crucial metadata, such as sampling location, limiting their utility for many analyses. Here, we assemble 205 new mitochondrial genomes for platyrrhine primates, most from the Amazon and with known sampling locations. We present a dated mitogenomic phylogeny based on these samples along with additional published platyrrhine mitogenomes, and use this to assess support for the long-standing Riverine Barrier Hypothesis (RBH), which proposes that river formation was a major driver of speciation in Amazonian primates. Along the Amazon, Negro, and Madeira rivers, we find mixed support for the RBH. While we identify divergences that coincide with a river barrier, only some of them occur synchronously and also overlap with the proposed dates of river formation. The most compelling evidence is for the Amazon river potentially driving speciation within bearded saki monkeys (Chiropotes spp.) and within the smallest extant platyrrhines, the marmosets and tamarins. However, we also find that even large rivers do not appear to be barriers for some primates, including howler monkeys (Alouatta spp.), uakaris (Cacajao spp.), sakis (Pithecia spp.), and robust capuchins (Sapajus spp.). Our results support a more nuanced, clade-specific effect of riverine barriers and suggest that other evolutionary mechanisms, besides the RBH and allopatric speciation, may have played an important role in the diversification of platyrrhines.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Janiak, Mareike C., Silva, Felipe E., Beck, Robin M. D., Vries, Dorien de, Kuderna, Lukas F. K., Torosin, Nicole S., Melin, Amanda D., Marqués-Bonet, Tomàs, Goodhead, Ian B., Messias, Mariluce, da Silva, Maria N. F., Sampaio, Iracilda, Farias, Izeni P., Rossi, Rogerio, de Melo, Fabiano R., Valsecchi, João, Hrbek, Tomas, Boubli, Jean P.
Other Authors:	Natural Environment Research Council (UK)
Format:	artículo biblioteca
Language:	English
Published:	John Wiley & Sons 2022-05-31
Subjects:	South American primates, Platyrrhines, Mitochondrial DNA, Riverine barrier hypothesis, Molecular phylogenetics,
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10261/272050 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003593 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002322 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000270 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100003282 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100007463
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