Whole-genome sequences shed light on the demographic history and contemporary genetic erosion of free-ranging jaguar (Panthera onca) populations

Affiliations

• ¹ Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, PUCRS. School of Health and Life Sciences, Porto Alegre, RS 90619, Brazil.
• ² HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, AL 35806, USA.
• ³ Vertebrate Genome Biology, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
• ⁴ CENAP/ICMBio, Atibaia, SP 12952, Brazil.
• ⁵ PPG Biologia Animal, Instituto de Biociências, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, RS 90650, Brazil.
• ⁶ Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas, Teodoro Sampaio, SP 19280, Brazil.
• ⁷ UniSul, Tubarão, SC 88704, Brazil; Instituto Pró-Carnívoros, Atibaia, SP 12945, Brazil.
• ⁸ Instituto Biotrópicos, Diamantina, MG, 39100, Brazil.
• ⁹ Estação Ecológica de Taiamã, ICMBio, Cáceres, MT 78200, Brazil.
• ¹⁰ Instituto Onça-pintada - Jaguar Conservation Fund, Mineiros, GO 75830, Brazil.
• ¹¹ Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA.
• ¹² San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research, San Diego, CA 92027, USA.
• ¹³ Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, PUCRS. School of Health and Life Sciences, Porto Alegre, RS 90619, Brazil; Instituto Pró-Carnívoros, Atibaia, SP 12945, Brazil. Electronic address: eduardo.eizirik@pucrs.br.