Genetic diversity and demographic history of introduced sika deer on the Delmarva Peninsula.

ABSTRACT: The introduction of non-native species can have long-term effects on native plant and animal communities. Introduced populations are occasionally not well understood and offer opportunities to evaluate changes in genetic structure through time and major population changes such as bottleneck and or founder events. Invasive species can often evolve rapidly in new and novel environments, which could be essential to their long-term success. Sika deer are native to East Asia, and their introduction and establishment to the Delmarva Peninsula, USA, is poorly documented, but probably involved ≥1 founder and/or bottleneck events. We quantified neutral genetic diversity in the introduced population and compared genetic differentiation and diversity to the presumed source population from Yakushima I

SUBMITTER: Kalb DM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6802040 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature