Differentiation in neutral genes and a candidate gene in the pied flycatcher: using biological archives to track global climate change.

ABSTRACT: Global climate change is one of the major driving forces for adaptive shifts in migration and breeding phenology and possibly impacts demographic changes if a species fails to adapt sufficiently. In Western Europe, pied flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca) have insufficiently adapted their breeding phenology to the ongoing advance of food peaks within their breeding area and consequently suffered local population declines. We address the question whether this population decline led to a loss of genetic variation, using two neutral marker sets (mitochondrial control region and microsatellites), and one potentially selectively non-neutral marker (avian Clock gene). We report temporal changes in genetic diversity in extant populations and biological archives over more than a century, using sample

SUBMITTER: Kuhn K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3867912 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature