Defining Management Units for European Captive Aardvarks
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60076658%3A12310%2F14%3A43886970" target="_blank" >RIV/60076658:12310/14:43886970 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/60460709:41210/14:64755
Result on the web
<a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/zoo.21164/pdf" target="_blank" >http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/zoo.21164/pdf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/zoo.21164" target="_blank" >10.1002/zoo.21164</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Defining Management Units for European Captive Aardvarks
Original language description
The Aardvark (Orycteropus afer) is a very unique, but relatively widespread African mammal. Although some morphological variation has been observed between forest and savannah populations and among different African regions, they are all considered as asingle species. However, no modern taxonomic revision is available. All captive aardvarks in Europe are believed to stem from wild born animals from Namibia, but recently several new wild-caught aardvarks from Tanzania have been integrated into the captive population. This raises the question, whether these specimens should be interbred with the existing captive population or whether there is a risk of outbreeding depression. We studied the genetic structure of the captive populations by sequencing twomitochondrial genes (cytochrome b and 16S rRNA) to assess the degree of genetic differentiation between the two source regions. Our data suggest that the aardvarks kept in European zoos belong to the same phylogenetic (mitochondrial) line
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
EH - Ecology - communities
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
Z - Vyzkumny zamer (s odkazem do CEZ)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2014
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Zoo Biology
ISSN
0733-3188
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
33
Issue of the periodical within the volume
5
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
7
Pages from-to
433-439
UT code for WoS article
000344013500009
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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