Can the barrier effect of highways cause genetic subdivision in small mammals?

0338555 - ÚVGZ 2010 RIV PL eng J - Článek v odborném periodiku
Rico, Adriana - Kindlmann, Pavel - Sedláček, František
Can the barrier effect of highways cause genetic subdivision in small mammals?
Acta Theriologica. Roč. 54, č. 4 (2009), s. 297-310. ISSN 0001-7051
Grant CEP: GA ČR GD206/03/H034; GA ČR GA206/04/0254; GA MŠMT(CZ) LC06073
Výzkumný záměr: CEZ:AV0Z60870520
Klíčová slova: Apodemus flavicollis * Myodes glareolus * highway barriers * microsatellites * population genetics
Kód oboru RIV: EG - Zoologie
Impakt faktor: 0.987, rok: 2009

Roads and highways contribute enormously to habitat fragmentation, because they can inhibit or even block animal movement across them, which may result in the ultimate division of the populations adjacent to the roads into smaller isolated subpopulations. The isolation reduces gene flow and increases risk of extinction due to a decrease in the genetic diversity of the isolated population. The aim of the present study is to determine whether highways can cause genetic subdivision of the bank vole Myodes glareolus (Schreber, 1780) and yellow-necked mouse Apodemus flavicollis (Melchior, 1834).
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0182295