Landscape genetics is an emerging field that integrates population genetics, landscape ecology, and spatial statistics to investigate how geographical and environmental features and evolutionary processes such as gene flow, genetic drift, and selection structure genetic variation at both the population and individual levels, with implications for ecology, evolution, and conservation biology. Despite being particularly well suited for primatologists, this method is currently underutilized. Here, we synthesize the current state of research on landscape genetics in primates. We begin by outlining how landscape genetics has been used to disentangle the drivers of diversity, followed by a review of how landscape genetic methods have been applied to primates. This is followed by a section highlighting special considerations when applying the methods to primates, and a practical guide to facilitate further landscape genetics studies using both existing and de novo datasets. We conclude by exploring future avenues of inquiry that could be facilitated by recent developments as well as underdeveloped applications of landscape genetics to primates.

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灵长类景观遗传学：综述和实用指南

景观遗传学是一个新兴领域，它整合了种群遗传学、景观生态学和空间统计，以研究地理和环境特征以及基因流、遗传漂变和选择等进化过程如何在种群和个体水平上构建遗传变异，并产生影响。用于生态学、进化和保护生物学。尽管这种方法特别适合灵长类动物学家，但目前并未得到充分利用。在这里，我们综合了灵长类动物景观遗传学的研究现状。我们首先概述景观遗传学如何被用来解开多样性的驱动因素，然后回顾景观遗传方法如何应用于灵长类动物。紧随其后的部分重点介绍了将这些方法应用于灵长类动物时的特殊注意事项，以及使用现有数据集和从头数据集促进进一步景观遗传学研究的实用指南。最后，我们探索了未来的研究途径，这些途径可以通过最近的发展以及景观遗传学对灵长类动物的不发达应用来促进。