Article
Genetic evaluation of a proposed introduction: the case of the greater prairie chicken and the extinct heath hen.
Molecular ecology - 1 Jul 2004
Palkovacs Eric P, Oppenheimer Adam J, Gladyshev Eugene, Toepfer John E, Amato George, Chase Thomas, Caccone Adalgisa
Abstract excerpt
Population introduction is an important tool for ecosystem restoration. However, before introductions should be conducted, it is important to evaluate the genetic, phenotypic and ecological suitability of possible replacement populations. Careful genetic analysis is particularly important if it is suspected that the extirpated population was unique or genetically divergent. On the island of Martha's Vineyard,...
Topics
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Conservation of Natural Resources
- DNA Primers
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Ecosystem
- Galliformes
- Genetic Variation
- Haplotypes
- Likelihood Functions
- Massachusetts
- Models, Genetic
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Sequence Analysis, DNA