Introduction history overrides social factors in explaining genetic structure of females in Mediterranean mouflon.

ABSTRACT: Fine-scale spatial genetic structure of populations results from social and spatial behaviors of individuals such as sex-biased dispersal and philopatry. However, the demographic history of a given population can override such socio-spatial factors in shaping genetic variability when bottlenecks or founder events occurred in the population. Here, we investigated whether socio-spatial organization determines the fine-scale genetic structure for both sexes in a Mediterranean mouflon (Ovis gmelini musimon × Ovis sp.) population in southern France 60 years after its introduction. Based on multilocus genotypes at 16 loci of microsatellite DNA (n = 230 individuals), we identified three genetic groups for females and two for males, and concurrently defined the same number of

SUBMITTER: Portanier E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5696436 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature