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dc.contributor.advisor | Evans, Ben | - |
dc.contributor.author | Zhu, Jianlong | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-01-18T19:20:07Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2023-01-18T19:20:07Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2023 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/28231 | - |
dc.description.abstract | In most eukaryotes, aerobic respiration requires interactions between autosomally- encoded genes (Ninteract genes) and mitochondrial DNA, RNA, and protein. In species where females are philopatric, contrasting distributions of genetic variation in mito- chondrial and nuclear genomes creates variation in mitonuclear interactions that may be subject to natural selection. To test this expectation, we turned to a group with extreme female philopatry: the macaque monkeys. We examined four genomic datasets from (i) wild caught and (ii) captive populations of rhesus macaque, which is the most widely distributed non-human primate, and (iii) the stump-tailed macaque and (iv) a subspecies of longtail macaque, both of whose mitochondrial DNA is introgressed from a highly di- verged ancestor. We identified atypically long runs of homozygosity, low polymorphism, high differentiation and/or rapid protein evolution associated with Ninteract genes com- pared to non-Ninteract genes. These metrics suggest a subset of Ninteract genes were independently subject to natural selection in multiple species. Selection on mitonuclear interactions is thus a factor in macaque genome evolution that could have influenced as- pects of macaque societies including species diversity, ecological breadth, female-biased adult sex ratio and demography, sexual dimorphism, and mitonuclear phylogenomics. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.subject | Macaca | en_US |
dc.subject | female philopatry | en_US |
dc.subject | dispersal | en_US |
dc.subject | natural selection | en_US |
dc.subject | behavior | en_US |
dc.title | Mitonuclear interactions and the origin of macaque society | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Biology | en_US |
dc.description.degreetype | Thesis | en_US |
dc.description.degree | Master of Science (MSc) | en_US |
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