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Investigating temporal changes in hybridization and introgression in a predominantly bimodal hybridizing population of invasive sika (Cervus nippon) and native red deer (C. elaphus) on the Kintyre Peninsula, Scotland.
Molecular ecology - 1 Mar 2010
Senn H V, Barton N H, Goodman S J, Swanson G M, Abernethy K A, Pemberton J M
Abstract excerpt
We investigated temporal changes in hybridization and introgression between native red deer (Cervus elaphus) and invasive Japanese sika (Cervus nippon) on the Kintyre Peninsula, Scotland, over 15 years, through analysis of 1513 samples of deer at 20 microsatellite loci and a mtDNA marker. We found no evidence that either the proportion of recent hybrids, or the levels of introgression had changed over the study...
Topics
- Animals
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Deer
- Gene Flow
- Gene Frequency
- Genetic Variation
- Genetics, Population
- Genotype
- Haplotypes
- Hybridization, Genetic
- Microsatellite Repeats
- Models, Genetic
- Scotland