205 Amazonian Primate Mitochondrial Genomes for Speciation Analysis

Amazonian primate mitochondrial genomes assembled by Mareike C. Janiak et al. in 2022. The dataset includes 205 newly assembled mitogenomes, primarily from the Amazon region, with associated metadata and analysis files. It was created to test the Riverine Barrier Hypothesis for primate speciation.

Use Cases

• Testing the Riverine Barrier Hypothesis for speciation based on mitochondrial genome alignments.
• Conducting phylogenetic analyses using the provided maximum likelihood and Bayesian posterior tree files.
• Performing lineage delimitation analyses with the provided trimmed alignment and tree files.
• Studying mitochondrial genome characteristics like length and coverage from the MitoFinder results files.

Strengths

• Includes 205 newly assembled mitochondrial genomes.
• Contains geographic coordinates for sample locations as part of the complete metadata.
• Provides multiple analysis-ready files, including alignments, phylogenetic trees, and BEAST2 input files.

Limitations

• Row count and exact file sizes are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the specific primate samples collected.

Provenance

Source

Mareike C. Janiak et al., associated with the publication in Molecular Ecology (2022).

Collection Method

Mitochondrial genomes were assembled using MitoFinder from Illumina short reads.

Geography

Primarily the Amazon region.