Genetic variability, management, and conservation implications of the critically endangered Brazilian pitviper Bothrops insularis.

ABSTRACT: Information on demographic, genetic, and environmental parameters of wild and captive animal populations has proven to be crucial to conservation programs and strategies. Genetic approaches in conservation programs of Brazilian snakes remain scarce despite their importance for critically endangered species, such as Bothrops insularis, the golden lancehead, which is endemic to Ilha da Queimada Grande, coast of São Paulo State, Brazil. This study aims to (a) characterize the genetic diversity of ex situ and in situ populations of B. insularis using heterologous microsatellites; (b) investigate genetic structure among and within these populations; and (c) provide data for the conservation program of the species. Twelve informative microsatellites obtained from three species of t

SUBMITTER: Salles-Oliveira I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7713924 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature