Chamois introductions to Central Europe and New Zealand

0383939 - ÚBO 2013 RIV CZ eng J - Journal Article
Martínková, Natália - Zemanová, Barbora - Kranz, A. - Giménez, M. D. - Hájková, Petra
Chamois introductions to Central Europe and New Zealand.
Folia zoologica. Roč. 61, 3-4 (2012), s. 239-245. ISSN 0139-7893. E-ISSN 1573-1189
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Keywords : Alpine chamois * animal translocations * introduction * invasive species * Rupicapra rupicapra
Subject RIV: EG - Zoology
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Chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra) introductions were popular at the beginning of the 20th century when first animals were shipped from Austria to the Czech Republic and New Zealand. The historical record of the Czech introduction indicates Neuberg Mürzsteg Game Reserve in Eastern Alps, Styria, Austria as the main area of origin of founders. First animals for the New Zealand population are thought to have originated from Ebensee, Upper Austria, Austria and later more animals came from the Mürzsteg region. We sequenced mitochondrial control region of chamois from the introduced populations and their putative source areas, and we applied median-joining networks and Bayesian inference analysis to distinguish the regions of origin of female founders. We found the Mürzsteg region as the most likely source population for introductions to the Czech Republic and New Zealand, supplemented with close association with sequences from Ebensee in populations from the Czech Republic. Genetic diversity present in the Czech Republic was further relocated to the introduced populations in Slovakia in the 1960’s.
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