Genetic Lag in a Demographically Recovering Carnivore: The Case of the British Pine Marten (Martes martes)
Catherine O’Reilly,
Emma Sheehy,
Jenny MacPherson
et al.
Abstract:We investigated the genetic diversity of the contemporary Scottish pine marten population using neutral microsatellite markers, sampling 206 individuals across an area of almost 32,000 km2. Our results revealed that the genetic diversity in the Scottish population is modest with the levels of observed and expected heterozygosity ranging from the Highlands (Ho 0.52, He 0.55) to the Cairngorms (Ho 0.44, He 0.42), and the number of alleles ranged from 3.3 in the Highlands and Central to 2.3 in Dumfries and Gallow… Show more
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