Conservation Genomics of Two Threatened Subspecies of Northern Giraffe: The West African and the Kordofan Giraffe
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Sampling and DNA Extraction
2.2. PCR Amplification, Sequencing, and Alignment of Mitochondrial Loci
2.3. Phylogenetic Inference on Mitochondrial Data
2.4. Whole-Genome Re-Sequencing and Read Mapping
2.5. SNP Calling and Linkage Pruning
2.6. Population Structure Analyses
2.7. Ancestral Demography
2.8. Nuclear Genomic Diversity
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Coimbra, R.T.F.; Winter, S.; Mitchell, B.; Fennessy, J.; Janke, A. Conservation Genomics of Two Threatened Subspecies of Northern Giraffe: The West African and the Kordofan Giraffe. Genes 2022, 13, 221. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes13020221
Coimbra RTF, Winter S, Mitchell B, Fennessy J, Janke A. Conservation Genomics of Two Threatened Subspecies of Northern Giraffe: The West African and the Kordofan Giraffe. Genes. 2022; 13(2):221. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes13020221
Chicago/Turabian StyleCoimbra, Raphael T. F., Sven Winter, Barbara Mitchell, Julian Fennessy, and Axel Janke. 2022. "Conservation Genomics of Two Threatened Subspecies of Northern Giraffe: The West African and the Kordofan Giraffe" Genes 13, no. 2: 221. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes13020221