Title
Taxonomic diversity of Cebuella in the western Amazon: Molecular, morphological and pelage diversity of museum and free-ranging specimens
Date Issued
01 May 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana
Publisher(s)
John Wiley and Sons Inc.
Abstract
Objectives: We investigated the diversity of the pygmy marmoset, Cebuella pygmaea, by comparing genetic, morphological and pelage traits of animals from Peru and Ecuador. Materials and Methods: We extracted DNA from museum specimen osteocrusts and from fecal samples collected from free-ranging individuals. We sequenced the mtDNA cytochrome b gene and the control region from samples collected at 13 different sites and used Bayesian inference and Maximum Likelihood to identify distinct clades. We took measurements of the crania of a subset of these specimens (n = 26) and ran a logistic regression to determine if any of the cranial measurements (n = 22) could predict a specimen's clade. In addition, we examined the pelage patterns of the museum specimens and photographs taken of free-ranging individuals and divided them into pelage types based on coloration of the underbelly. Results: We identified two divergent clades, and two distinct groups with clear geographic boundaries within one of those clades. Two measurements of the zygomatic bone perfectly predicted a given individual's mtDNA clade. We found four distinct pelage patterns in our samples, but these patterns are variable within clades and among individuals within the same population. Conclusion: These analyses indicate that the two recognized subspecies of pygmy marmoset should be elevated to the species level (C. pygmaea and C. niveiventris) based on molecular and cranial differences but not on pelage patterns. We provide evidence on the geographic limits of the two clades and identify regions where additional sampling is required to better define the geographic distribution of the two clades.
Start page
251
End page
267
Volume
175
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Zoología, Ornitología, Entomología, ciencias biológicas del comportamiento
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85102275324
PubMed ID
Source
American Journal of Physical Anthropology
ISSN of the container
00029483
Sponsor(s)
Thanks to the staff at the FMNH, AMNH and UMMZ for granting us to permission to access their collections, and to the FMNH staff for collecting osteocrust samples; to the NIU Statistics Consulting Services for its help with analyses; to Priscilla and Paige Watson and Merelyn Dolins for their generous hospitality in New York City while Leila M. Porter worked at the AMNH. We thank Delaney Cargo, Anna del Valle Peris, Dayanna López, Erika Alzamora, Amalia de la Torre, Ramiro SanMiguel and Pablo Yépez for their help in the collection of Ecuadorian samples. The Tiputini Biodiversity Station, the Secoya community of San Pablo and the SanMiguel family greatly facilitated the field work in Ecuador. Nina Q. Espinosa de los Monteros Silva, Cassandra Huerta, Patricia Billete and Stavi Tennenbaum helped produce the molecular data used in this study. The Chicago Zoological Society's Chicago Board of Trade Endangered Species and USFQ Chancellor and Collaboration Grants for helped to fund this project. Finally, we thank two anonymous reviewers for helping us to improve and clarify this article.
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