Combining phylogenetic and demographic inferences to assess the extent and origin of the genetic diversity in an isolated wolf population.

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61988987%3A17310%2F17%3AA1801TG6" target="_blank" >RIV/61988987:17310/17:A1801TG6 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0176560" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0176560</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0176560" target="_blank" >10.1371/journal.pone.0176560</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Combining phylogenetic and demographic inferences to assess the extent and origin of the genetic diversity in an isolated wolf population.

Original language description

The survival of isolated small populations is threatened by both demographic and genetic factors. Large carnivores declined for centuries in most of Europe due to habitat changes, overhunting of their natural prey and direct persecution. However, the current rewilding trends are driving many carnivore populations to expand again, possibly reverting the erosion of their genetic diversity. In this study we reassessed the extent and origin of the genetic variation of the Italian wolf population, which is expanding after centuries of decline and isolation. We genotyped wolves from Italy and other nine populations at four mtDNA regions (control-region, ATP6, COIII and ND4) and 39 autosomal microsatellites. Results of phylogenetic analyses and assignment procedures confirmed in the Italian wolves a second private mtDNA haplotype, which belongs to a haplogroup distributed mostly in southern Europe. Coalescent analyses showed that the unique mtDNA haplotypes in the Italian wolves likely originated during the late Pleistocene. ABC simulations concordantly showed that the extant wolf populations in Italy and in south-western Europe started to be isolated and declined right after the last glacial maximum. Thus, the standing genetic variation in the Italian wolves principally results from the historical isolation south of the Alps.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10620 - Other biological topics

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

PLOS ONE

ISSN

1932-6203

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

12

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

1-19

UT code for WoS article

000401314100025

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85018931772