Article
Detecting hybridization between wild species and their domesticated relatives.
Molecular ecology - 1 Jan 2008
Randi Ettore
Abstract excerpt
The widespread occurrence of free-ranging domestic or feral carnivores (dogs, cats) or ungulates (pigs, goats), and massive releases of captive-reproduced game stocks (galliforms, waterfowl) is raising fear that introgressive hybridization with wild populations might disrupt local adaptations, leading to population decline and loss of biodiversity. Detecting introgression through hybridization is problematic if...
Topics
- Animals
- Bayes Theorem
- Birds
- Cats
- Conservation of Natural Resources
- Europe
- Genetic Variation
- Genetics, Population
- Hybridization, Genetic
- Microsatellite Repeats
- Models, Genetic
- Multivariate Analysis