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Modes of Differentiation in Japanese Macaques: Perspectives from Population Genetics

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The Japanese Macaques

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In bisexually reproducing organisms, individuals in the same reproductive population share common genes. As genes accumulate mutations, genetic differentiation proceeds through time between reproductively different populations. Because of the lack of gene flow after speciation, different species show increased mutational differences, resulting in genetic diversity between species.

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Acknowledgments

I thank Drs. K. Nozawa, T. Shotake, O. Takenaka, M. Aimi, T. Mouri, Y. Hamada, and N. Shigehara and Mr. Y. Mito for their encouragement and cooperation. I am indebted to the field biologists working on Japanese macaques through my population genetics study for their support with sample collections and field observations. I also thank Ms. S. Kawamoto, Dr. H. Tanaka, Mr. K. Tomari, Ms. S. Kawai, and Ms. A. Saitou for their support in laboratory analyses. The findings reviewed in this chapter were obtained from research projects financed by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (Grants-in-Aid for General Scientific Research Nos. 09640835 and 11440249, for Exploratory Research No. 15657058, and Challenging Exploratory Research No. 20651062).

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Kawamoto, Y. (2010). Modes of Differentiation in Japanese Macaques: Perspectives from Population Genetics. In: Nakagawa, N., Nakamichi, M., Sugiura, H. (eds) The Japanese Macaques. Primatology Monographs, vol 0. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-53886-8_3

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