Low genetic diversity in a critically endangered primate: shallow evolutionary history or recent population bottleneck?

Table 1 Comparison of population genetic parameters inferred from microsatellite data from 6 endangered primate species. L, sequence length; n, number of haplotypes; s, number of polymorphic sites; h, haplotype diversity; π, nucleotide diversity; SD, standard deviation; CR, critically endangered; EN, endangered

Species	Trachypithecus leucocephalus	Trachypithcus francoisi	Rhinopithecus brelichi	Brachyteles hypoxanthus	Ateles geoffroyi	Rhinopithecus bieti
Common name	White-headed langur	François’s langur	Guizhou snub-nosed monkey	Northern muriqui	Black-handed spider monkey	Yunnan snub-nosed monkey
Endangered status	CR	EN	EN	CR	EN	EN
Population size	1000	2000^a	750–800	864	870–924	2000
Sample size	213	178	141	152	162	157
L	350	395	379	366	221	379
n	9	29	5	23	36	30
s	10	Unspecified	25	21	31	51
h (SD)	0.486 (0.036)	0.952 (0.005)	0.457 (0.048)	0.905	0.880	0.945 (0.006)
π (SD)	0.003 (0.000)	0.034 (0.001)	0.014 (0.007)	0.014	0.014	0.036 (0.018)
References	This study	[63]	[41]	[40]	[64]	[41]

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