Microsatellite markers confirm extensive population fragmentation of the endangered Balkan palaeoendemic Martino s vole (Dinaromys bogdanovi)

BUZAN, Elena V., Boris KRYSTUFEK and Josef BRYJA. Microsatellite markers confirm extensive population fragmentation of the endangered Balkan palaeoendemic Martino s vole (Dinaromys bogdanovi). Conservation Genetics. Netherlands: Springer, 2010, 11/2010, No 5, p. 1783-1794. ISSN 1566-0621.

Basic information

• Original name: Microsatellite markers confirm extensive population fragmentation of the endangered Balkan palaeoendemic Martino s vole (Dinaromys bogdanovi)
• Authors: BUZAN, Elena V. (705 Slovenia), Boris KRYSTUFEK (705 Slovenia) and Josef BRYJA (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: Conservation Genetics, Netherlands, Springer, 2010, 1566-0621.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Article in a journal
• Field of Study: 10600 1.6 Biological sciences
• Country of publisher: Czech Republic
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Impact factor: Impact factor: 1.255
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14310/10:00046714
• Organization unit: Faculty of Science
• UT WoS: 000281907000016
• Keywords in English: Population structure; conservation management; spatial genetics; metapopulation

Abstract

The Martino s vole is an endangered rodent endemic to the western Balkan Peninsula. Its range is fragmented, and populations are small due to high habitat specificity. The level of genetic variation within such populations is often low, and genetic differentiation between patchily dispersed populations is high. By scoring eight microsatellite loci in 110 individual Martino's voles originating from 27 locations throughout the species range, we analysed genetic variation at both the intra- and interpopulation level. Factorial correspondence analysis, Bayesian analyses, and allele sharing distances divided individuals into three phylogroups (Northwestern, Central, and Southeastern), thus providing independent support for phylogeographic structuring, a pattern that has been described in previous studies based on mitochondrial DNA. Spatial genetic analyses showed that populations are highly fragmented, even in those areas with the highest population densities.

Links

• MSM0021622416, plan (intention): Name: Diverzita biotických společenstev a populací: kauzální analýza variability v prostoru a čase

Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, Diversity of Biotic Communities and Populations: Causal Analysis of variation in space and time