Range-wide patterns of human-mediated hybridisation in European wildcats
| العنوان: | Range-wide patterns of human-mediated hybridisation in European wildcats |
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| المؤلفون: | Vinciane Schockert, René Janssen, Jaap Mulder, Xavier Mestdagh, Markus Pfenninger, Annika Tiesmeyer, Luana Ramos, Andrew C. Kitchener, José Manuel Lucas, Csaba Domokos, Zsolt Hegyeli, Katharina Steyer, Despina Migli, Clotilde Lambinet, Carsten Nowak, Margherita Cragnolini, Christos Astaras, Paulo C. Alves, Pedro Monterroso, Dionisios Youlatos, Mareike Brix |
| المصدر: | Conservation Genetics. 21:247-260 |
| بيانات النشر: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020. |
| سنة النشر: | 2020 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Conservation genetics, education.field_of_study, biology, Range (biology), Population size, Felis, biology.animal_breed, Population, Introgression, Zoology, biology.organism_classification, Genetics, European wildcat, education, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Hybrid |
| الوصف: | Hybridisation between wild taxa and their domestic congeners is a significant conservation issue. Domestic species frequently outnumber their wild relatives in population size and distribution and may therefore genetically swamp the native species. The European wildcat (Felis silvestris) has been shown to hybridise with domestic cats (Felis catus). Previously suggested spatially divergent introgression levels have not been confirmed on a European scale due to significant differences in the applied methods to assess hybridisation of the European wildcat. We analysed 926Felisspp. samples from 13 European countries, using a set of 86 selected ancestry-informative SNPs, 14 microsatellites, and ten mitochondrial and Y-chromosome markers to study regional hybridisation and introgression patterns and population differentiation. We detected 51 hybrids (four F1 and 47 F2 or backcrosses) and 521 pure wildcats throughout Europe. The abundance of hybrids varied considerably among studied populations. All samples from Scotland were identified as F2 hybrids or backcrosses, supporting previous findings that the genetic integrity of that wildcat population has been seriously compromised. In other European populations, low to moderate levels of hybridisation were found, with the lowest levels being in Central and Southeast Europe. The occurrence of distinct maternal and paternal markers between wildcat and domestic cat suggests that there were no severe hybridisation episodes in the past. The overall low ( |
| تدمد: | 1572-9737 1566-0621 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::4494dc711bbbdfe2200653f45f449085 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-019-01247-4 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi...........4494dc711bbbdfe2200653f45f449085 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
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