Genetic diversity and differentiation of wild boar (Sas scrofa L.) populations in the Carpathians | Genetická diverzita a diferenciácia populácií diviaka (Sus scrofa L.) v Karpatoch
2013
Paule, L., Technical University in Zvolen (Slovak Republic). Faculty of Forestry | Romšáková, I., Technical University in Zvolen (Slovak Republic). Faculty of Forestry | Krajmerová, D., Technical University in Zvolen (Slovak Republic). Faculty of Forestry | Gömöry, D., Technical University in Zvolen (Slovak Republic). Faculty of Forestry | Hell, P. | Ionescu, O., Transylvania University (Faculty of Silviculture and Forest Exploitation)
For this pilot study aimed at differentiation of wild boar populations from Central and Southeastern Europe the samples of 266 individuals originated from the Carpathians and adjacent regions were used. Fourteen microsatellite loci of nuclear DNA were used for genetic analyses. Results showed small genetic differentiation of Slovak populations and Romanian ones. This was proven using the clustering of populations based on allelic frequencies as well as by using the Bayesian approach which clearly differentiated only two groups - Carpathians and Germany. Observed number of alleles varied between 4 and 19, while the effective number of alleles varied between 4.72 and 8.65. The values of observed heterozygosities ranged from 0.32 to 0.82 and those of expected heterozygosities ranged from 0.53 to 0.88. In general, a small deficit of heterozygotes was observed at all loci except SW828, SW986 and SW1465, in which the F values exceed 0.14. This pilot study showed genetic differentiation between Western European (Germany) and Carpathian wild boar populations, although the borders of two wild boar subspecies S. s. scrofa and S. s. attila in this part of European natural range (Carpathians) were not found.
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