Female Philopatry and Extreme Spatial Genetic Heterogeneity in White-Tailed Deer

Purdue, James R.; Smith, Michael H.; Patton, James R.

doi:10.1644/1545-1542(2000)081<0179:fpaesg>2.0.co;2

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“…Haplotypes were observed from three divergent clades geographically distributed across the study area. Our results showed more intermixing of haplotypes than was noted in deer populations in other parts of the species range as evidenced by Purdue et al (2000) who found little spatial overlap of haplotypes in South Carolina. However, other investigations in similar Midwestern environments yielded comparable levels of high haplotype diversity and substantial spatial mixing of haplotypes (J.…”

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Diversity and Distribution of White-Tailed Deer mtDNA Lineages in Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Outbreak Areas in Southern Wisconsin, USA

Rogers

Robinson

Samuel

et al. 2011

Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part A

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Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy affecting North American cervids. Because it is uniformly fatal, the disease is a major concern in the management of white-tailed deer populations. Management programs to control CWD require improved knowledge of deer interaction, movement, and population connectivity that could influence disease transmission and spread. Genetic methods were employed to evaluate connectivity among populations in the CWD management zone of southern Wisconsin. A 576-base-pair region of the mitochondrial DNA of 359 white-tailed deer from 12 sample populations was analyzed. Fifty-eight variable sites were detected within the sequence, defining 43 haplotypes. While most sample populations displayed similar levels of haplotype diversity, individual haplotypes were clustered on the landscape. Spatial clusters of different haplotypes were apparent in distinct ecoregions surrounding CWD outbreak areas. The spatial distribution of mtDNA haplotypes suggests that clustering of the deer matrilineal groups and population connectivity are associated with broad-scale geographic landscape features. These landscape characteristics may also influence the contact rates between groups and therefore the potential spread of CWD; this may be especially true of local disease spread between female social groups. Our results suggest that optimal CWD management needs to be tailored to fit gender-specific dispersal behaviors and regional differences in deer population connectivity. This information will help wildlife managers design surveillance and monitoring efforts based on population interactions and potential deer movement among CWD-affected and unaffected areas.

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Diversity and Distribution of White-Tailed Deer mtDNA Lineages in Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Outbreak Areas in Southern Wisconsin, USA

Rogers

Robinson

Samuel

et al. 2011

Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part A

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“…Isolation‐by‐distance is generally regarded as a baseline pattern in landscape genetics that is characterized by increasing genetic differentiation among individuals, groups, or populations with increasing geographical distance (van Strien, Holderegger, & Van Heck, ). Isolation‐by‐distance often results from spatially limited gene flow, whereas dispersal to all distances with equal probabilities will not lead to such a pattern (Purdue, Smith, & Patton, ; Rivers, Butlin, & Altringham, ). Isolation‐by‐distance was assessed using Mantel tests at the group level for males and females separately in ARLEQUIN v 3.5.1.2 (Excoffier & Lischer, ).…”

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Fine‐scale genetic structure analyses reveal dispersal patterns in a critically endangered primate, Trachypithecus leucocephalus

Wang

Yao

2017

American J Primatol

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Dispersal is a critically important life history trait of social organisms that has a major impact on the population genetic structure and social relationships within groups. Primates exhibit highly diversified dispersal and philopatry patterns, but knowledge of these patterns is difficult to obtain and usually limited to observations of a small number of focal social groups or individuals. Here, we investigated the dispersal pattern of a critically endangered colobine monkey, the white-headed langur (Trachypithecus leucocephalus), using molecular approaches, and sex-specific population genetic structure analyses at fine geographical scales. We non-invasively collected 403 fecal samples from 41 social groups across 90% of the langur's range in Fusui (FS) and Chongzuo (CZ) in southwestern Guangxi Province, China. We identified 214 unique individuals from the samples by genotyping 15 polymorphic autosomal microsatellite loci, a sex-specific marker, and sequencing the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) hypervariable region I (HVRI). We found higher intragroup than intergroup genetic relatedness in males and females in both populations. A significant positive correlation between genetic distance and geographical distance, that is a pattern of isolation-by-distance, was detected in females from the FS population, but not in males. Spatial autocorrelation analyses revealed high within-group relatedness in both sexes and populations, as well as an additional positive correlation at the 0.5-km distance class in females from the FS population. Furthermore, we inferred first-generation migrants using genetic assignment tests. Our results suggest that male T. leucocephalus disperse at random distances within habitat areas, whereas dispersal of females may mainly occur among adjacent groups near their home site. Our study provides the first genetic evidence for sex-biased dispersal in T. leucocephalus, which has important management and conservation implications for the species.

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“…IBD and IBR are not, however, mutually exclusive and sometimes a combination of the two best explains genetic structuring (Metzger, Espindola, Waits, & Sullivan, 2015;Piertney, MacColl, Bacon, & Dallas, 1998). Species that are widespread and relatively continuously distributed are expected to exhibit either panmixia or clinal patterns of genetic structure explained by IBD, particularly when comparing populations at a large scale (Alcaide et al, 2009;Purdue, Smith, & Patton, 2000;Ralston & Kirchman, 2012). A few studies have emerged where widespread, continuously distributed species exhibit unexpected patterns of IBR (Pease et al, 2009;Pilot et al, 2006), but the extent to which species with broad geographic ranges exhibit IBD or IBR is unclear (Basto et al, 2016;Frankham, Ballou, & Briscoe, 2010).…”

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Landscape effects on the contemporary genetic structure of Ruffed Grouse (Bonasa umbellus) populations

Jensen

O'Neil

Iwaniuk

et al. 2019

Ecology and Evolution

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The amount of dispersal that occurs among populations can be limited by landscape heterogeneity, which is often due to both natural processes and anthropogenic activity leading to habitat loss or fragmentation. Understanding how populations are structured and mapping existing dispersal corridors among populations is imperative to both determining contemporary forces mediating population connectivity, and informing proper management of species with fragmented populations. Furthermore, the contemporary processes mediating gene flow across heterogeneous landscapes on a large scale are understudied, particularly with respect to widespread species. This study focuses on a widespread game bird, the Ruffed Grouse (Bonasa umbellus), for which we analyzed samples from the western extent of the range. Using three types of genetic markers, we uncovered multiple factors acting in concert that are responsible for mediating contemporary population connectivity in this species. Multiple genetically distinct groups were detected; microsatellite markers revealed six groups, and a mitochondrial marker revealed four. Many populations of Ruffed Grouse are genetically isolated, likely by macrogeographic barriers. Furthermore, the addition of landscape genetic methods not only corroborated genetic structure results, but also uncovered compelling evidence that dispersal resistance created by areas of unsuitable habitat is the most important factor mediating population connectivity among the sampled populations. This research has important implications for both our study species and other inhabitants of the early successional forest habitat preferred by Ruffed Grouse. Moreover, it adds to a growing body of evidence that isolation by resistance is more prevalent in shaping population structure of widespread species than previously thought.

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Female Philopatry and Extreme Spatial Genetic Heterogeneity in White-Tailed Deer

Cited by 58 publications

References 15 publications

Diversity and Distribution of White-Tailed Deer mtDNA Lineages in Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Outbreak Areas in Southern Wisconsin, USA

Diversity and Distribution of White-Tailed Deer mtDNA Lineages in Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Outbreak Areas in Southern Wisconsin, USA

Fine‐scale genetic structure analyses reveal dispersal patterns in a critically endangered primate, Trachypithecus leucocephalus

Landscape effects on the contemporary genetic structure of Ruffed Grouse (Bonasa umbellus) populations

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