Are shed hair genomes the most effective noninvasive resource for estimating relationships in the wild?

Ranthambore Tiger Reserve genome noninvasive sample pedigree relatedness relationships shed hair

Journal

Ecology and evolution
ISSN: 2045-7758
Titre abrégé: Ecol Evol
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101566408

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Jun 2020
Historique:
received: 27 07 2019
revised: 10 02 2020
accepted: 17 02 2020
entrez: 20 6 2020
pubmed: 20 6 2020
medline: 20 6 2020
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Knowledge of relationships in wild populations is critical for better understanding mating systems and inbreeding scenarios to inform conservation strategies for endangered species. To delineate pedigrees in wild populations, study genetic connectivity, study genotype-phenotype associations, trace individuals, or track wildlife trade, many identified individuals need to be genotyped at thousands of loci, mostly from noninvasive samples. This requires us to (a) identify the most common noninvasive sample available from identified individuals, (b) assess the ability to acquire genome-wide data from such samples, and (c) evaluate the quality of such genome-wide data, and its ability to reconstruct relationships between animals within a population.We followed identified individuals from a wild endangered tiger population and found that shed hair samples were the most common compared to scat samples, opportunistically found carcasses, and opportunistic invasive samples. We extracted DNA from these samples, prepared whole genome sequencing libraries, and sequenced genomes from these.Whole genome sequencing methods resulted in between 25%-98% of the genome sequenced for five such samples. Exploratory population genetic analyses revealed that these data were free of holistic biases and could recover expected population structure and relatedness. Mitochondrial genomes recovered matrilineages in accordance with long-term monitoring data. Even with just five samples, we were able to uncover the matrilineage for three individuals with unknown ancestry.In summary, we demonstrated that noninvasive shed hair samples yield adequate quality and quantity of DNA in conjunction with sensitive library preparation methods, and provide reliable data from hundreds of thousands of SNPs across the genome. This makes shed hair an ideal noninvasive resource for studying individual-based genetics of elusive endangered species in the wild.

Identifiants

pubmed: 32551045
doi: 10.1002/ece3.6157
pii: ECE36157
pmc: PMC7297754
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

4583-4594

Subventions

Organisme : Wellcome Trust
Pays : United Kingdom

Informations de copyright

© 2020 The Authors. Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Auteurs

Anubhab Khan (A)

National Centre for Biological Sciences TIFR Bangalore India.

Kaushalkumar Patel (K)

National Centre for Biological Sciences TIFR Bangalore India.

Subhadeep Bhattacharjee (S)

Rajasthan Forest Department Jaipur India.
Department of GEMES University of Johannesburg Johannesburg South Africa.

Sudarshan Sharma (S)

Rajasthan Forest Department Jaipur India.

Anup N Chugani (AN)

Medgenome Labs Pvt. Ltd Bangalore India.

Karthikeyan Sivaraman (K)

Medgenome Labs Pvt. Ltd Bangalore India.

Vinayak Hosawad (V)

Medgenome Labs Pvt. Ltd Bangalore India.

Yogesh Kumar Sahu (YK)

Rajasthan Forest Department Jaipur India.

Goddilla V Reddy (GV)

Rajasthan Forest Department Jaipur India.

Uma Ramakrishnan (U)

National Centre for Biological Sciences TIFR Bangalore India.

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