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Genetic Structure and Effective Population Sizes in European Red Deer (Cervus elaphus) at a Continental Scale: Insights from Microsatellite DNA.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jul 2016
Zachos Frank E, Frantz Alain C, Kuehn Ralph, Bertouille Sabine, Colyn Marc, Niedziałkowska Magdalena, Pérez-González Javier, Skog Anna, Sprĕm Nikica, Flamand Marie-Christine
Abstract excerpt
We analyzed more than 600 red deer (Cervus elaphus) from large parts of its European distribution range at 13 microsatellite loci, presenting the first continent-wide study of this species using nuclear markers. Populations were clearly differentiated (overall F ST = 0.166, Jost's D est = 0.385), and the BAPS clustering algorithm yielded mainly geographically limited and adjacent genetic units. When forced into...
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