Applications of genomic methods to studies of wild primate populations

Abstract

Primatologists are becoming increasingly aware of the advances made in genomics and wish to take advantage of what these technologies have to offer. While draft genomes have been assembled for several nonhuman primates, considerable genomic resources are still lacking for many taxa that have been the subject of ecological and evolutionary research. This chapter provides a brief overview of next generation technologies and focuses on methods of potential use for studies of wild primate populations. Specific examples of genomic applications are discussed, highlighting the advantages of generating large-scale sequencing data for many long-standing questions in primate molecular ecology.