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PONE-D-21-37151Genetic signature of blind reintroductions of Iberian ibex (Capra pyrenaica) in Catalonia, Northeast SpainPLOS ONE Dear Dr. Barros, Thank you for submitting your manuscript to PLOS ONE. After careful consideration, we feel that it has merit but does not fully meet PLOS ONE’s publication criteria as it currently stands. Therefore, we invite you to submit a revised version of the manuscript that addresses the points raised during the review process. Please submit your revised manuscript by Feb 14 2022 11:59PM. If you will need more time than this to complete your revisions, please reply to this message or contact the journal office at plosone@plos.org. When you're ready to submit your revision, log on to https://www.editorialmanager.com/pone/ and select the 'Submissions Needing Revision' folder to locate your manuscript file. Please include the following items when submitting your revised manuscript:
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We grateful Josep Vicens Jovani, Xavier Oliver, Maria Josep Vargas, Xavier Sempere, Jordi Xifra and Ignasi de Dalmases, from the Tortosa and Beseit National Game Reserve, the Controlled Game Area of Montserrat, the Game and Fish Section of Girona (DARP) and the Agents Rurals body, for their advice and samples provided.) We note that you have provided funding information that is not currently declared in your Funding Statement. However, funding information should not appear in the Acknowledgments section or other areas of your manuscript. We will only publish funding information present in the Funding Statement section of the online submission form. Please remove any funding-related text from the manuscript and let us know how you would like to update your Funding Statement. 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(Please upload your review as an attachment if it exceeds 20,000 characters) Reviewer #1: Please state clearly in the text: 1. How many individuals were the goat samples used? Whether the 185 muscle samples came from different individuals 2. How are these individuals related? 3. What are the reasons for choosing 14 microsatellite markers? 4. Please refer to the journal requirements to modify the table format. 5. FIG. 2, this labeling method is difficult to identify, so it is suggested to adjust the background color of the satellite map or replace it with a blank background containing latitude and longitude labels. 6. It is recommended to start with the introduction or discussion to simplify the article, which should correspond to the conclusion Reviewer #2: I have evaluated the paper “Genetic signature of blind reintroductions of Iberian ibex (Capra pyrenaica) in Catalonia, Northeast Spain”. In this study, the authors characterize the variability of three Iberian ibex populations from Catalonia by using mitochondrial sequences and 14 microsatellite markers. No signature of introgression with domestic goats is identified and a close affinity between the Tortosa Beseit and Montserrat populations is detected, while the Montgrí population appears to be more differentiated. Conservation and management strategies are also discussed in the light of the results obtained by the authors. This paper can be of interest to readers of PloS One, but a major revision is needed. Please provide a detailed response to each one of the queries outline below indicating in which lines of the new manuscript changes have been made With regard to the scientific content of the paper Q1.My main observation is that a representative number of domestic goats must be genotyped for the 14 microsatellites and such data should be included in the Structure plot. Otherwise, it is hard to understand how the authors conclude that microsatellite data corroborate the absence of hybridization with domestic goats (?).An added benefit of genotyping some goats would be to compare their levels of diversity with those of ibexes. A PCA including the 3 ibex populations plus a domestic goat population would be also welcome. Q2.In the Results section, please divide it in 2 subsections: one for mitochondrial data and another one for microsatellite data. In L315 indicate the FST value even if it is not significant. Sometimes it is difficult to infer whether you are talking about mitochondrial or microsatellite results. This needs to be presented in a much clearer way. Q3.I have difficulties in understanding the “assignment test”. The basis of such analysis needs to be explained with more detail in the materials and methods section. In L307-8 is explained that the assignment test is based on Structure results and I assume that this refers to microsatellite genotypes, right? Then the clusters should be Tortosa Beseit+Montserrat and Montgrí (K=2), or Tortosa Beseit, Montserrat and Montgrí. So, how an assignment probability can be calculated for domestic goats in Table S3? Based on mitochondrial data? But mitochondrial data are haploid, so no point in making a Structure analysis. The authors are using an admixture model assuming that individual i has inherited some fraction of its genome from ancestors in population k and yielding, as output, the posterior mean estimates of these proportions. Please check whether the term is “posterior probablilities” used in the legend of Fig. 4 is correct in this context (in the non-admixture model it would, but I am not so sure about the admixture model so I advise to verify it). Data presented in Table S3, from where do they come from? What is genetic cluster 1 and 2? Cluster 2 is domestic goats? But not a single domestic goat has been genotyped with microsatellites and subsequently analysed with Structure, right? Each Table and Figure should be meaningful by itself, so please indicate with precision what are you displaying because this part of the text is very confusing. Indicate in a clear way which type of marker and which clusters or popultions are you taking into consideration in each of the analyses. Detailed legends for tables and figures are very helpful to readers. Detailed methodological explanations are also very welcome. Q4.What is your interpretation about the failure to detect bottlenecks with the Bottleneck software despite the demographic history of these 3 ibex populations? Is the Bottleneck software well suited to detect any type of bottleneck? This should be discussed properly. Q5.Does it make sense that the Montserrat population is non-inbred (see lines 453-4) and its source population (Tortosa Beseit) is inbred based on FIS measurements despite of having a much larger size? I find it very hard to believe (how a population recently derived from an inbred source population can be non-inbred?). This needs to be discussed. With 46 founders and no additional incoming individuals, it is impossible that the Montserrat population is not inbred. Maybe this is explained by the inherent lack of power of FIS to detect inbreeding when scarce molecular data are available. In any case, an interpretation should be provided to understand this unexpected outcome. Q6.L135, 370, 371, 387. I am nost sure whether is realistic to hypothesize that Iberian ibexes might be introgressed with Alpine ibexes or vice versa. Their geographic ranges are completely different and they are separated by 1,000 km, so how could the introgression of Iberian ibexes with Alpine ibexes be a threat (L136)? Such hypothesis needs to be justified or discarded as unrealistic. Q7.L193, sequencing protocol should be explained Q8.L325, why a high HWE departure is expected? The numbers of microsatellites in HWD are quite low when populations are considered individually, and I am not sure if it is correct to merge three different populations into a single one and then state that 8/14 microsatellites were in disequilibrium. In other words, could population stratification contribute to this HW departure? Q9.L404,is it correct to say that TBNGR population has a high diversity? If compared to domestic goats, sure that it does not. This population in 1966 had around 400-500 individuals. Q10. Both microsatellite genotypes and mitochondrial sequences should be made available. Please include an availability statement in the manuscript. With regard to formal issues: Q11. There are many typos that should have been corrected before all authors approved the final submission of the paper. In many places populations are named in (at least) 2 different manners e.g Montserrat (correct) and Monserrat (incorrect, please ammend) Cataluña and Catalonia (use Catalonia since it is an English paper) Montgrí (correct) and Montgri (incorrect) Tortosa y Beceit (Admixture plot, incorrect), Tortosa-Beseit (correct), Beseit (L451, incorrect), Tortosa i Beseit (correct), Tortosa and Beseit (correct). Although 3 terms are correct, this population needs to be named with just one single denomination, not multiple different names. Please pick one of these denominations and use it consistently throughout the paper. The format of the references is also completely inconsistent, as if anybody had revised it. Even if a free-format is allowed, this does not imply than the references can be written in multiple inconsistent formats. Some examples: L572, 3-37.3. (??), plus minus sign in L587 and many other places, L584, a DOI is provided, but only for this ref. , L596,, lacks volume number and pages, L663, 1994 November, L664 PMID etc etc. Please use a free but coherent format to cite papers, and make sure that you are citing them correctly. Other formal issues: L138, Iberian peninsula L174, none of the animals were hunted L182-3, from the 185 muscle samples, please indicate the number of samples for each population (between parentheses). L187, 2.5 microliters of 10x buffer L188, please recheck whether dNTP concentrations is 10 micromolar. It seems quite low to me. MgCl2, the 2 should be subindexed L199, electrophoresed, not sequenced (if you are talking about microsatellites) L209, I would say diagnosis L216, electropherograms L217, visual inspection (not manual) L247, indicate how many individuals from each population were successfully sequenced L292, do you mean 96 ibexes with data for 14 microsatellites? L308, STRUTUCTURE L324, sensible means “of good judgement”. Replace by sensitive L369, gene flow L370, Alpine L402, nuclear what? L423,424, FST without subindexing ST L451, matrilineal L497, genetic diversity (not traits) L508, not sure vein territories is correct, maybe neighboring? The resolution of the network Figure is too low and the names of the populations are unreadable (please write them with a larger font). In Table 2, what is the meaning of IAM = xxx and SMM = dxxx? Besides, abbreviations could be defined in a footnote rather than in the legend of the table. Figure 2, needless to write gene pool 1, 2 and 3. Do not superimpose K values onto the Figure Instead of Supporting materials I would say Supporting or Supplementary Tables. I see a list of references below Table S2, but I am not sure whether refs corresponding to Table S1 are mentioned anywhere (?). Table S3, decimals separated with points, not commas This list of errors/typos is not exhaustive, so I advise all authors to take a thorough look at the revised paper. ********** 6. PLOS authors have the option to publish the peer review history of their article (what does this mean?). If published, this will include your full peer review and any attached files. If you choose “no”, your identity will remain anonymous but your review may still be made public. Do you want your identity to be public for this peer review? For information about this choice, including consent withdrawal, please see our Privacy Policy. 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