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ArticleAmerican journal of primatology2025

Estimating the Distribution of Fitness Effects in Aye-Ayes (Daubentonia madagascariensis), Accounting for Population History as Well as Mutation and Recombination Rate Heterogeneity.

Vivak Soni, Cyril J Versoza, Susanne P Pfeifer, Jeffrey D Jensen

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Vivak SoniCenter for Evolution and Medicine, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
Cyril J VersozaCenter for Evolution and Medicine, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
Susanne P PfeiferCenter for Evolution and Medicine, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1378-2913
Jeffrey D JensenCenter for Evolution and Medicine, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4786-8064

Funding

On differentiating selective and neutral evolutionary processesR35GM139383 · NIGMS · ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY-TEMPE CAMPUS · PI JENSEN, JEFFREY D · 2021 to 2025
$3.0M
Characterizing the full spectrum of genomic variation in biomedically-relevant primatesR35GM151008 · NIGMS · ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY-TEMPE CAMPUS · PI Susanne P Pfeifer · 2023 to 2026
$1.6M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM139383NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM151008This study was supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R35GM151008 to S.P.P. and the National Science Foundation under Award Number DBI-2012668 to the Duke Lemur Center. V.S. and J.D.J. were supported by National Institutes of Health Award Number R35GM139383 to J.D.J. C.J.V. was supported by the National Science Foundation CAREER Award DEB-2045343 to S.P.P.
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Abstract

The distribution of fitness effects (DFE) characterizes the range of selection coefficients from which new mutations are sampled, and thus holds a fundamentally important role in evolutionary genomics. To date, DFE inference in primates has been largely restricted to haplorrhines, with limited data availability leaving the other suborder of primates, strepsirrhines, largely under-explored. To advance our understanding of the population genetics of this important taxonomic group, we here map exonic divergence in aye-ayes (Daubentonia madagascariensis)-the only extant member of the Daubentoniidae family of the Strepsirrhini suborder. We further infer the DFE in this highly-endangered species, utilizing a recently published high-quality annotated reference genome, a well-supported model of demographic history, as well as both direct and indirect estimates of underlying mutation and recombination rates. The inferred distribution is generally characterized by a greater proportion of deleterious mutations relative to humans, providing evidence of a larger long-term effective population size. In addition however, both immune-related and sensory-related genes were found to be amongst the most rapidly evolving in the aye-aye genome.

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Genetic FitnessMutationRecombination, GeneticStrepsirhiniAnimalsGenetics, PopulationPopulation DensitySelection, Geneticdistribution of fitness effectsevolutionary genomicspopulation geneticsprimateselection coefficientsstrepsirrhine

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PMID40596780
PMCPMC12643138

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