Where did they come from – the origin of sika deer population in the Czech Republic

0374222 - ÚBO 2012 FR eng A - Abstract
Barančeková, Miroslava - Krojerová-Prokešová, Jarmila - Voloshina, I. V. - Myslenkov, A. I. - Kawata, Y. - Oshida, T. - Lamka, J. - Koubek, Petr
Where did they come from – the origin of sika deer population in the Czech Republic.
ECM 2011. VIth EuropeanCongress of Mammalogy. Paris: Université P. et M. Curie, 2011 - (Denys, C.). s. 106
[European Congress of Mammalogy /7./. 19.07.2011-23.07.2011, Paris]
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z60930519
Keywords : sika deer * Czech Republic * origin
Subject RIV: EG - Zoology
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The sika deer (Cervus nippon Temminck, 1838) was introduced to the Czech Republic at the end of 19th and beginning of 20th century. Since its introduction to the enclosure Kluk in 1891 sika deer has established two free-living populations and continued to increase in numbers. However, the exact places of origins as well as the subspecies status of the introduced animals are unknown. The scarce historical sources suggest the introduction from mainland as well as island populations. The origins of the Czech population was studied using two mitochondrial markers – cytochrome b and control region. The phylogenetic reconstruction, using neighbour-joining algorithm, maximum-likelihood criterion and Bayesian estimation, was performed on a data set containing Czech samples as well as samples from sika‘s native areas in Japan and Russia. The results of the analyses of 449 cyt b and 447 D-loop sequences yielded phylogenetic trees with nearly identical topology, containing three main haplogroups, nippon1, nippon2 and hortul. The nippon haplogroups contained samples from the Czech Republic and Japan, while the haplogroup hortul contained samples from the Czech Republic and Far East Russia. The animals belonging to the hortul group are related to the mainland subspecies C. n. hortulorum, while those from haplogroup nippon1 belong to the larger subspecies C. n. yesoensis from northern Japanese islands and those from haplogroup nippon2 originate from the smaller subspecies C. n. nippon living in Southern Japan.
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