Alignment of mitogenome sequences (FASTA file) for a paleogenomic investigation of overharvest implications in an endemic wild reindeer subspecies

Overharvest can severely reduce the abundance and distribution of a species and thereby impact its genetic diversity and threaten its future viability. Overharvest remains an ongoing issue for Arctic mammals, which due to climate change now also confront one of the fastest changing environments on Earth. The high-Arctic Svalbard reindeer (Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus), endemic to Svalbard, experienced a harvest-induced demographic bottleneck that occurred during the 17–20th centuries. Here we investigate changes in genetic diversity, population structure, and gene-specific differentiation during and after this overharvesting event. Using whole-genome shotgun sequencing, we generated the first ancient and historical nuclear (n = 11) and mitochondrial (n = 18) genomes from Svalbard reindeer (up to 4000 BP) and integrated these data with a large collection of modern genome sequences (n = 90), to infer temporal changes. We show that hunting resulted in major genetic changes and restructu..., , , # Alignment of mitogenome sequences (FASTA file)

The FASTA file provides the final multiple sequence alignment of mitochondrial genome haplotypes used in the phylogenetic analyses in our study.

## Description of the data and file structure

The multiple sequence alignment is in FASTA format. The FASTA identifier is consistent with the sample names used in our study and those from which we accessed public data.

## Sharing/Access information

Data was derived from the following sources:

* European Nucleotide Archive accession code PRJEB57293