Population structure and paternity in an American black bear (Ursus americanus) population using microsatellite DNA

Western North American Naturalist

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 489-497

  Sinclair, Elizabeth A ^a,b   Black, Hal L ^a   Crandall, Keith A ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Black bear; Home range; Microsatellites; Paternity; Pedigree; Relatedness; Ursus americanus; Utah

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA; TRANSPOSONS; URSUS; URSUS AMERICANUS;

EID: 0348159938     PISSN: 15270904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. AMSTRUP, S.C., AND J. BEECHAM. 1976. Activity patterns of radio-collared black bears in Idaho. Journal of Wildlife Management 40:340-348.
2. BARBER, K.R., AND F.G. LINDZEY. 1986. Breeding behavior in black bears. 7th International Conference on Bear Research and Management 6:129-136.
3. BLACKWELL, B.H., AND G. EVANS. 1997. State of Utah black bear harvest report 1996. Publication 97-2, Utah Department of Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife Resources.
4. BOERSEN, M.R., J.D. CLARK, AND T.L. KING. 2003. Estimating black bear population density and genetic diversity in Tensas River, Louisiana, using microsatellite DNA markers. Wildlife Society Bulletin 31: 197-207.
5. BOWCOCK, A.M., A. RUIZ-LINARES, J. TOMFOHRDE, E. MINCH, J.R. KIDD, AND L.L. CAVALLI-SFORZA. 1994. High resolution of human evolutionary trees with polymorphic microsatellites. Nature 368:455-457.
6. BUNNELL, F.L., AND D.E.N. TAIT. 1981. Population dynamics of bears - implications. Pages 75-98 in C.W. Fowler and T.D. Smith, editors, Dynamics of large mammal populations. Wiley and Sons, New York.
7. CALLEN, D.F., A.D. THOMPSON, Y. SHEN, H.A. PHILLIPS, R.I. RICHARDS, J.C. MULLEY, AND G.R. SUTHERLAND. 1993. Incidence and origin of 'null' alleles in the (AC)n microsatellite markers. American Journal of Human Genetics 52:922-927.
8. CRAIGHEAD, L., D. PAETKAU, H.V. REYNOLDS, E.R. VYSE, AND C. STROBECK. 1995. Microsatellite analysis of paternity and reproduction in arctic grizzly bears. Journal of Heredity 86:255-261.
9. CROW, J.F., AND M. KIMURA. 1970. An introduction to population genetic theory. Harper & Row, New York.
10. CROZIER, R.H., P. PAMILO, AND Y.C. CROZIER. 1984. Relatedness and microgeographic genetic variation in Rhytidoponera mayri, an Australian arid-zone ant. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 15:143-150.
11. DALLAS, J.F., B. DOD, P. BOURSOT, E.M. PRAGER, AND F. BONHOMME. 1995. Population subdivision and gene flow in Danish house mice. Molecular Ecology 4: 311-320.
12. DI RIENZO, A., A. PETERSON, J.C. GARZA, A.M. VALDES, M. SLATKIN, AND N.B. FREIMER. 1994. Mutational processes of simple-sequence repeat loci in human populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 91:3166-3170.
13. FOLTZ, D.W. 1986. Null alleles as a possible cause of heterozygote deficiencies in the oyster Crassostrea virginica and other bivalves. Evolution 40:869-870.
14. GARSHELIS, D.R., AND M.R. PELTON. 1981. Movement of black bears in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Journal of Wildlife Management 45:912-925.
15. GOODNIGHT, K.F., AND D.C. QUELLER. 1999. Computer software for performing likelihood tests of pedigree relationship using genetic markers. Molecular Ecology 8:1231-1234.
16. GREENWOOD, P.J. 1980. Mating systems, philopatry and dispersal in birds and mammals. Animal Behavior 28:1140-1162.
17. HAMILTON, W.D. 1964a. The genetical evolution of social behaviour I. Journal of Theoretical Biology 7:1-16.
18. _. 1964b. The genetical evolution of social behaviour II. Journal of Theoretical Biology 7:17-52.
19. HORNER, M.A., AND R.A. POWELL. 1990. Internal structure of home ranges of black bears and analyses of home range overlap. Journal of Mammalogy 71:402-410.
20. KEANE, B., W.P.J. DITTUS, AND D.J. MELNICK. 1997. Paternity assessment in wild groups of toque macaques Macaca sinica at Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka using molecular markers. Molecular Ecology 6:267-282.
21. KIE, J.G., J.A. BALDWIN, AND C.J. EVANS. 1994. CALHOME: home range analysis program. U.S. Forest Service, Fresno, CA.
22. LINDZEY, F.G., AND E.C. MESLOW. 1977. Population characteristics of black bears on an island in Washington. Journal of Wildlife Management 41:408-412.
23. MARSHALL, T.C., J. SLATE, L.E.B. KRUUK, AND J.M. PEMBERTON. 1998. Statistical confidence for likelihood-based paternity inference in natural populations. Molecular Ecology 7:639-655.
24. OHTA T., AND M. KIMURA. 1973. The model of mutation appropriate to estimate the number of electrophoretically detectable alleles in a genetic population. Genetical Research 22:201-204.
25. PAETKAU, D., W. CALVERT, I. STIRLING, AND C. STROBECK. 1995. Microsatellite analysis of population structure in Canadian polar bears. Molecular Ecology 4: 347-354.
26. PAETKAU, D., G.F. SHIELDS, AND C. STROBECK. 1998. Gene flow between insular, coastal and interior populations of brown bears in Alaska. Molecular Ecology 7:1283-1292.
27. PAETKAU, D., AND C. STROBECK. 1994. Microsatellite analysis of genetic variation in black bear populations. Molecular Ecology 3:489-495.
28. PAETKAU, D., L.P. WAITS, P.L. CLARKSON, L. CRAIGHEAD, AND C. STROBECK. 1997. An empirical evaluation of genetic distance statistics using microsatellite data from bear (Ursidae) populations. Genetics 147: 1943-1957.
29. RAYMOND, M., AND F. ROUSSET. 1995. GENEPOP (version 1.2): population genetics software for exact tests and ecumenicism. Journal of Heredity 86:248-249.
30. ROGERS, L.L. 1987. Effects of food supply and kinship on social behaviour, movements, and population dynamics of black bears in northeastern Minnesota. Wildlife Monographs 97:1-72.
31. _. 1999. American black bear. Pages 157-160 in D.E. Wilson and S. Ruff, editors, The Smithsonian book of North American mammals. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC.
32. SAMBROOK, F., E.F. FRITSCH, AND T. MANIATIS. 1989. Molecular cloning: a laboratory manual. Cold Spring Harbor, New York.
33. SCHENK, A., AND K.M. KOVACS. 1995. Multiple paternity between black bears revealed by DNA fingerprinting. Animal Behavior 50:1983-1490.
34. SCHENK, A., M.E. OBBARD, AND K.M. KOVACS. 1998. Genetic relatedness and home-range overlap among female black bears (Ursus americanus) in northern Ontario, Canada. Canadian Journal of Zoology 76:1511-1519.
35. SMITH, T.R., AND M.R. PELTON. 1990. Home ranges and movements of black bears in a bottomland hardwood forest in Arkansas. Pages 213-218 in L.M. Darling and W.R. Archibald, editors, Bears - their biology and management, a selection of papers from the 8th International Conference on Bear Research and Management, Vancouver, Canada.
36. TABERLET, P., J.-J. CAMARRA, S. GRIFFIN, E. UHRES, O. HANOTTE, L.P. WAITS, C. DUBIOS-PAGANON, T. BURKE, AND J. BOUVET. 1997. Non-invasive genetic tracking of the endangered Pyrenean brown bear population. Molecular Ecology 6:869-876.
37. TOLMAN, J. 1998. A comparison of reproductive and habitat characteristics of two Utah black bear populations. Master's thesis, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT.
38. WOODING, J.B., AND T.S. HARDISKY. 1994. Home range, habitat use, and mortality of black bears in northeast Florida. 9th International Conference on Bear Research and Management 9:349-356.
39. YOUNG, B.F., AND R.L. RUFF. 1982. Population dynamics and movements of black bears in east central Alberta. Journal of Wildlife Management 46:845-860.