A El Mousadik

A Gelman

A Rienzo Di

A Skog

AJ Ede

AK Hufthammer

AM Lister

B Goossens

B Kurtèn

BE Sæther

BG Andersen

BS Weir

C Vila

CJ Ludt

D Falush

DH Nussey

DJ Hulme

DS Weber

DX Zhang

E Bhebhe

E Lønnberg

E Randi

F Rousset

F Zachos

FC Buchanan

FW Allendorf

G Evanno

G Hewitt

GA Wilson

GB Hartl

GM Hewitt

H Haanes

H Strandgaard

Hallvard Haanes

I Ahlèn

J Peréz-González

JA Grieg

JC Garza

JF Dallas

JF Storz

JK Pritchard

JL Weber

JM Cornuet

JM Milner

KH Røed

KK Flerov

Knut H. Røed

L Chikhi

L Excoffier

L Jonsson

L Nunney

LEB Kruuk

M Clement

M Kimura

M Nei

MA Beaumont

MC Forchhammer

MD Bishop

ME Soulé

O Flagstad

O Ingebrigtsen

Olav Rosef

PG Feulner

PU Clark

R Collett

R Kuehn

R Langvatn

R Liljegren

RS Sommer

S Herzog

S Lavsund

S Pérez-Espona

Silvia Perez-Espona

SS Moore

T Maruyama

U Gyllensten

V Nystrom

W Amos

WR Rice

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Low genetic variation support bottlenecks in Scandinavian red deer

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European Journal of Wildlife Research

Loss of genetic variation from genetic drift during population bottlenecks has been shown for many species. Red deer (Cervus elaphus) may have been exposed to bottlenecks due to founder events during postglacial colonisation in the early Holocene and during known population reductions in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In this study, we assess loss of genetic variation in Scandinavian red deer due to potential bottlenecks by comparing microsatellite (n = 14) and mitochondrial DNA variation in the Norwegian and Swedish populations with the Scottish, Lithuanian and Hungarian populations. Bottlenecks are also assessed from the M ratio of populations, heterozygosity excess and from hierarchical Bayesian analyses of their demographic history. Strong genetic drift and differentiation was identified in both Scandinavian populations. Microsatellite variation was lower in both Scandinavian populations compared with the other European populations and mitochondrial DNA variation was especially low in the Swedish population where only one unique haplotype was observed. Loss of microsatellite alleles was demonstrated by low M ratios in all populations except the Hungarian. M ratios' were especially low in the Scandinavian populations, indicating additional or more severe bottlenecks. Heterozygosity excess compared with the expectation from the number of observed microsatellite alleles suggested a recent bottleneck of low severity in the Norwegian population. Hierarchical Bayesian coalescent analyses consistently yielded estimates of a large ancestral and a small current population size in all investigated European populations and suggested the onset of population decline to be between 5,000 and 10,000 years ago, which coincide well with postglacial colonisation.</p

Haanes, Hallvard

Roed, Knut H.

Perez-Espona, Silvia

Rosef, Olav

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Low genetic variation support bottlenecks in Scandinavian red deer

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