Genetic structure and climate niche differentiation among populations of Leopardus geoffroyi

Dataset containing information for Geoffroy's cat (Leopardus geoffroyi) samples from Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Bolivia, genotyped for 11 microsatellites markers. Markers FCA441 and F124 showed evidence of linkage, but the former had higher PID and therefore we discarded it from the analyses. Geographic origin of samples is provided as geographic coordinates (DATUM: GRS80)., Samples consisted of preserved tissues obtained from museum specimens, fresh muscle and blood samples collected from road-killed and captured wild individuals, respectively, and feces collected in the field. Collection dates ranged from 1928 to 2015, and we divided samples into two groups: “historical” (period 1928−1990) and “contemporary” (period 1991−2015). The year 1990 was used as the limit to separate samples before and after export ban on native cats in Argentina.
We extracted DNA following Gómez Fernández, M. J., Fameli, A., Rojo Gómez, J., Pereira, J. A., & Mirol, P. (2020). Phylogeographical spatial diffusion analysis reveals the journey of Geoffroy’s cat through the Quaternary glaciations of South America. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 129(3), 603-617.
We used a panel of eleven microsatellite loci (F42, F53, F98, F124, F146, FCA391, FCA424, FCA441, FCA453, FCA723, FCA742) developed for domestic cats. PCR amplifications were performed individually using the M13..., , # Data from: Genetic structure and climate niche differentiation among populations of Leopardus geoffroyi

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Genotypes and geographic coordinates for 135 *Leopardus geoffroyi* samples, used in the manuscript ECE-2023-11-02018 submitted to BMC Ecology and Evolution.

## Description of the data and file structure

Data is presented as an .xlsx file containing the following columns:

ID: sample identification code.

FCA742_1: allele 1 for microsatellite FCA742.

FCA742_2: allele 2 for microsatellite FCA742.

FCA391_1: allele 1 for microsatellite FCA391.

FCA391_2: allele 2 for microsatellite FCA391.

F53_1: allele 1 for microsatellite F53.

F53_2: allele 2 for microsatellite F53.

FCA723_1: allele 1 for microsatellite FCA723.

FCA723_2: allele 2 for microsatellite FCA723.

F146_1: allele 1 for microsatellite F146.

F146_2: allele 2 for microsatellite F146.

F42_1: allele 1 for microsatellite F42.

F42_2: alle...