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mensalis, plus four localities each in Argentina and Chile representing V. Here, we present a comprehensive assessment of the genetic diversity of vicuña based on samples collected throughout its distribution range corresponding to eleven localities in Peru and five in Chile representing V. Despite the vicuña’s ecosystemic, economic and social importance, studies about their genetic variation and history are limited and geographically restricted. Current vicuña population size (460,000–520,000 animals) is the result of population recovery programs established in response to 500 years of overexploitation. vicugna in the south of its distribution. The vicuña ( Vicugna vicugna) is the most representative wild ungulate of the high Andes of South America with two recognized morphological subspecies, V.
9School of Biosciences, College of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom. 8CONOPA-Instituto de Investigación y Desarrollo de Camélidos Sudamericanos, Lima, Peru. 7Doctorado en Ciencias, Mencioìn Ecologiìa y Evolucioìn, Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales and Evolutivas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile. 6Departamento de Ciencias Básicas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Santo Tomás, Iquique, Chile. 5Núcleo Milenio INVASAL, Concepción, Chile. 4GEECLAB, Departamento de Zoología, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Oceanográficas, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile. 3Laboratorio de Genómica y Biodiversidad, Departamento de Ciencias Básicas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad del Bío-Bío, Chillán, Chile. 2South American Camelid Specialist Group, Survival Species Commission, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Santiago, Chile. 1Laboratorio de Ecología de Vida Silvestre, Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y de la Conservación de la Naturaleza, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Wheleer 2,8, Pablo Orozco-terWengel 9* and Juan Carlos Marín 3* Vásquez 3,4, Daniel Gómez-Uchida 4,5, Jorge Cortés 3,4, Romina Rivera 3,6, Nicolas Aravena 3, Ana M.