Genetic diversity of the Czech red deer population based on mitochondrial DNA

0423466 - ÚBO 2014 DE eng A - Abstract
Krojerová-Prokešová, Jarmila - Barančeková, Miroslava - Koubek, Petr
Genetic diversity of the Czech red deer population based on mitochondrial DNA.
Mammalian Biology. Springer. Roč. 78, Special issue (2013), s. 16. ISSN 1616-5047. E-ISSN 1618-1476.
[Annual Meeting of the German Society of Mammalogy /87./. 08.09.2013-12.09.2013, Prague]
Institutional support: RVO:68081766
Keywords : red deer * genetic diversity
Subject RIV: EG - Zoology
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The red deer(Cervus elaphus) is an autochthonous and the most abundant deerspecies in the Czech Republic. Its current population numbers and distribution are highly influenced by long-time traditional hunting management in the Czech Republic and by the changes which transformed the forested habitats into an intensively managed agricultural landscape during the last few centuries. The distribution range of red deer was consequently fragmented and reduced, mainly to border mountain areas. Further, many translocations throughout the Czech Republic and throughout the whole European region as well as introductions of several closely related taxa (sika, wapiti, maral) could have highly influenced the genetic diversity and population structure of the Czech red deer population. The genetic variability of Czech red deer was analysed using mitochondrial sequences of the cytochrome b gene and the control region. Sofar, we have isolated and analysed mtDNA from 150 tissue samples collected during the hunting seasons 2006–2012 from different parts of the Czech Republic. Haplotype diversity was relatively high; we detected 12 cytochrome b and 25 control region haplotypes. Bayesian and maximum likelihood analyses resulted in trees with similar topologies and high bootstrap support for the major clades. The sequences of both markers were divided into two clades, elaphus1 and elaphus2, with the difference between them varying from 1 to 4%. This confirms the presence of at least two different haplogroups in the Czech Republic.
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