Article
High levels of variation despite genetic fragmentation in populations of the endangered mountain pygmy-possum, Burramys parvus, in alpine Australia.
Molecular ecology - 1 Jan 2007
Mitrovski P, Heinze D A, Broome L, Hoffmann A A, Weeks A R
Abstract excerpt
In endangered mammals, levels of genetic variation are often low and this is accompanied by genetic divergence among populations. The mountain pygmy-possum (Burramys parvus) is an endangered marsupial restricted to the alpine region of Victoria and New South Wales, Australia. By scoring variation at eight microsatellite loci, we found that B. parvus populations exhibit high levels of genetic divergence and fall...
Topics
- Animals
- Australia
- Conservation of Natural Resources
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Gene Flow
- Gene Pool
- Genetic Variation
- Geography
- Inbreeding
- Marsupialia
- Microsatellite Repeats