Combining Bayesian genetic clustering and ecological niche modeling: Insights into wolf intraspecific genetic structure.

ABSTRACT: The distribution of intraspecific genetic variation and how it relates to environmental factors is of increasing interest to researchers in macroecology and biogeography. Recent studies investigated the relationships between the environment and patterns of intraspecific genetic variation across species ranges but only few rigorously tested the relation between genetic groups and their ecological niches. We quantified the relationship of genetic differentiation (F _ST) and the overlap of ecological niches (as measured by n-dimensional hypervolumes) among genetic groups resulting from spatial Bayesian genetic clustering in the wolf (Canis lupus) in the Italian peninsula. Within the Italian wolf population, four genetic clusters were detected, and these clusters

SUBMITTER: Milanesi P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6262746 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature