Haplotype-resolved and chromosome-scale genomes provide insights into co-adaptation between the Amur tiger and Amur leopard  

作　　者：Hai-Meng Li Bo-Yang Liu Min-Hui Shi Le Zhang Shang-Chen Yang Sunil Kumar Sahu Liang-Yu Cui Shan-Lin Liu Nicolas Dussex Yue Ma Dan Liu Wei-Yao Kong Hao-Rong Lu Yue Zhao Love Dalén Huan Liu Tian-Ming Lan Guang-Shun Jiang Yan-Chun Xu 

机构地区：[1]College of Wildlife and Protected Area,Northeast Forestry University,Harbin,Heilongjiang 150040,China [2]State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Genomics,BGI Research,Shenzhen,Guangdong 518083,China [3]College of Life Sciences,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100049,China [4]College of Life Sciences,Zhejiang University,Hangzhou,Zhejiang 310058,China [5]BGI Research,Wuhan,Hubei 430074,China [6]Department of Entomology,College of Plant Protection,China Agricultural University,Beijing 100193,China [7]Centre for Palaeogenetics,Svante Arrhenius väg 20C,Stockholm 10691,Sweden [8]Department of Zoology,Stockholm University,Stockholm 10691,Sweden [9]Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics,Swedish Museum of Natural History,Stockholm 10691,Sweden [10]Heilongjiang Siberian Tiger Park,Harbin,Heilongjiang 150000,China [11]Jinlin Provincial Academy of Forestry Science,Changchun,Jilin 130033,China [12]China National GeneBank,BGI Research,Shenzhen,Guangdong 518120,China [13]Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Genome Read and Write,BGI Research,Shenzhen,Guangdong 518083,China [14]BGI Life Science Joint Research Center,Northeast Forestry University,Harbin,Heilongjiang 150040,China [15]Feline Research Center of National Forestry and Grassland Administration,College of Wildlife and Protected Area,Northeast Forestry University,Harbin,Heilongjiang 150040,China [16]National Forestry and Grassland Administration Research Center of Engineering Technology for Wildlife Conservation and Utilization,Harbin,Heilongjiang 150040,China

出　　处：《Zoological Research》2024年第3期464-467,共4页动物学研究（英文）

基　　金：supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China(2572022DQ03);National Natural Science Foundation of China(32170517);Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Genome Read and Write(2017B030301011);supported by China National GeneBank(CNGB)。

摘　　要：DEAR EDITOR,Big cats,such as Amur tigers(Panthera tigris altaica)and Amur leopards(P.pardus orientalis),are apex predator and have evolved specialized traits for hunting and carnivory(Moya et al.,2022),thus playing a crucial role in maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem integrity by regulating prey-predator dynamics.However,human-induced pressures,habitat fragmentation,and environmental alterations have restricted these species in small and isolated populations.Currently,all extant big cats are categorized as endangered or threatened according to their conservation status.Amur tigers and Amur leopards share overlapping geographic ranges,habitats,and certain prey species in the forests of Northeast Asia(Jiang et al.,2015).To reduce interspecies conflict,these carnivores exhibit differentiated dietary and temporal niches.Amur tigers predominantly prey on large ungulates,while Amur leopards hunt small to medium-sized animals(Sugimoto et al.,2016).Additionally,they occupy different temporal niches,with tigers being active at night and leopards more active during the day.Despite spatial and temporal niche partitioning,interspecific competition between these two species is inevitable.Tigers,benefiting from their greater size,have a competitive advantage over leopards,which can manifest in occasional leopard predation by tigers and declines in leopard populations with increasing tiger density(Jiang et al.,2015).Tigers also displace leopards from marginal habitats in nature reserves where they coexist.

关 键 词：habitat PANTHERA RESOLVED 

分 类 号：Q958[生物学—动物学]