Rescue of a severely bottlenecked wolf (Canis lupus) population by a single immigrant

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1510, 2003, Pages 91-97

  Vilà, Carles ^a   Sundqvist, Anna Karin ^a   Flagstad, Øystein ^a   Seddon, Jennifer ^a   Björnerfeldt, Susanne ^a   Kojola, Ilpo ^b   Casulli, Adriano ^c   Sand, Håkan ^d   Wabakken, Petter ^e   Ellegren, Hans ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^d SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^e Hedmark College   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bottleneck; Founding effect; Genetic rescue; Migration; Scandinavia; Wolf

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION GENETICS; FOUNDER EFFECT; IMMIGRATION; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; POPULATION GENETICS;

ALLELE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BOTTLENECK POPULATION; BREEDING; CANIS LUPUS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEMALE; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; IMMIGRANT; MALE; MATING SYSTEM; NATURAL POPULATION; NONHUMAN; OUTBREEDING; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANDINAVIA; SPECIES CONSERVATION; WOLF;

EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

ANIMALIA; CANIDAE; CANIS; CANIS LUPUS;

EID: 12244302887     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2184     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. Amos, W., Worthington Wilmer, J., Fullard, K., Burg, T. M., Croxall, J. P., Bloch, D. & Coulson, T. 2001 The influence of parental relatedness on reproductive success. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 268, 2021-2027. (DOI 10.1098/rspb.2001.1751.)
2. Aronson, Å., Wabakken, P., Sand, H., Steinset, O. K. & Kojola, I. 1999 Varg i Skandinavien: statusrapport för vintern 1998-1999. Rapport nr 18: Naturvårdverket, Sverige, Fylkesmännen i Hedmark, Oslo/Akershus, Östfold fylker & Direktoratet för naturförvaltning, Norge. (ISBN: 82-7671-079-4.) (In Swedish.)
3. Aronson, Å., Wabakken, P., Sand, H., Steinset, O. K. & Kojola, I. 2000 Varg I Skandinavien: statusrapport för vintern 1999-2000. Rapport nr 2: Naturvårdverket & Samordningsgruppen för beståndsövervakning av stora rovdjur, Sverige, Fylkesmennene i Hedmark, Oslo/Akershus, Östfold fylker & Direktoratet for naturforvaltning, Norge. (ISBN: 82-7671-124-3.) (In Swedish.)
4. Aronson, Å., Wabakken, P., Sand, H., Steinset, O. K. & Kojola, I. 2001 Varg I Skandinavien: statusrapport för vintern 2000-2001. Rapport nr 2-2001: Naturvårdverket & Samordningsgruppen för beståndsövervakning av stora rovdjur, Sverige, Norsk institutt for naturforskning (NINA) & Direktoratet for naturforvaltning, Norge. (ISBN: 82-7671-190-1.) (In Swedish.)
5. Aronson, Å., Wabakken, P., Sand, H., Steinset, O.-K. & Kojola, I. 2002 The wolf of Scandinavia: status report of the 2001/02 winter. Sweden: Swedish Environmental Protection Agency.
6. Ball, S. J., Adams, M., Possingham, H. P. & Keller, M. A. 2000 The genetic contribution of single male immigrants to small, inbred populations: a laboratory study using Drosophila melanogaster. Heredity 84, 677-684.
7. Barton, N. H. & Charlesworth, B. 1984 Genetic revolutions, founder effects, and speciation. A. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 15, 133-164.
8. Belkhir, K., Borsa, P., Chikhi, L., Raufaste, N. & Bonhomme, F. 2001 GENETIX 4.02, logiciel sous Windows TM pour la génétique des populations. Montpellier: Laboratoire Génome, Populations, Interactions, CNRS UMR 5000, Université de Montpellier II.
9. Benzécri, J. P. 1973 L'Analyse des Données: T. 2, I' Analyse des correspondances. Paris: Dunod.
10. Bijlsma, R., Bundgaard, J. & Boerema, A. C. 2000 Does inbreeding affect the extinction risk of small populations?: predictions from Drosophila. J. Evol. Biol. 13, 502-514.
11. Ceballos, G. & Ehrlich, P. R. 2002 Mammal population losses and the extinction crisis. Science 296, 904-907.
12. Ebert, D., Haag, C., Kirkpatrick, M., Riek, M., Hottinger, J. W. & Pajunen, V. I. 2002 A selective advantage to immigrant genes in a Daphnia metapopulation. Science 295, 485-488.
13. Ellegren, H. 1999 Inbreeding and relatedness in Scandinavian grey wolves Canis lupus. Hereditas 130, 239-244.
14. Ellegren, H., Savolainen, P. & Rosen, B. 1996 The genetical history of an isolated population of the endangered grey wolf Canis lupus: a study of nuclear and mitochondrial polymorphisms. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 351, 1661-1669.
15. Flagstad, Ø., Walker, C. W., Vilà, C., Sundqvist, A.-K., Fernholm, B., Hufthammar, A. K., Wiig, Ø., Kojola, I. & Ellegren, H. 2003 Two centuries of the Scandinavian wolf population: patterns of genetic variability and migration during an era of dramatic decline. Mol. Ecol. (In the press.)
16. Francisco, L. V., Langston, A. A., Mellersh, C. S., Neal, C. L. & Ostrander, E. A. 1996 A class of highly polymorphic tetranucleotide repeats for canine genetic mapping. Mammalian Genome 7, 359-362.
17. Frankham, R. 1995 Conservation genetics. A. Rev. Genetics 29, 305-327.
18. Goodnight, K. F. & Queller, D. C. 1999 Computer software for performing likelihood tests of pedigree relationship using genetic markers. Mol. Ecol. 8, 1231-1234.
19. Hartl, D. L. & Clark, A. G. 1997 Principles of population genetics, 3rd edn. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer.
20. Hedrick, P. W. & Kalinowski, S. T. 2000 Inbreeding depression in conservation biology. A. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 31, 139-162.
21. Higgins, K. & Lynch, M. 2001 Metapopulation extinction caused by mutation accumulation. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 98, 2928-2933.
22. Hofreiter, M., Serre, D., Poinar, H. N., Kuch, M. & Pääbo, S. 2001 Ancient DNA. Nature Rev. Genet. 2, 353-359.
23. Ingvarsson, P. K. & Whitlock, M. C. 2000 Heterosis increases the effective migration rate. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 267, 1321-1326. (DOI 10.1098/rspb.2000.1145.)
24. Keller, L. F. & Waller, D. M. 2002 Inbreeding effects in wild populations. Trends Ecol. Evol. 17, 230-241.
25. Keller, L. F., Arcese, P., Smith, J. N. M., Hochachka, W. M. & Stearns, S. C. 1994 Selection against inbred song sparrows during a natural population bottleneck. Nature 372, 356-357.
26. Laikre, L. & Ryman, N. 1991 Inbreeding depression in a captive wolf (Canis lupus) population. Conserv. Biol. 5, 33-40.
27. Laikre, L., Ryman, N. & Thompson, E. A. 1993 Hereditary blindness in a captive wolf (Canis lupus) population: frequency reduction of a deleterious allele in relation to gene conservation. Conserv. Biol. 7, 592-601.
28. Lande, R. 1999 Extinction risks from anthropogenic, ecological and genetic factors. In Genetics and the extinction of species (ed. L. F. Landweber & A. P. Dobson), pp. 1-11. Princeton University Press.
29. Madsen, T., Shine, R., Olsson, M. & Wittzell, H. 1999 Conservation biology: restoration of an inbred adder population. Nature 402, 34-35.
30. Mech, L. D. 1970 The wolf: the ecology and behavior of an endangered species. Garden City, NY: The Natural History Press.
31. Merilä, J., Björklund, M. & Baker, A. J. 1996 The successful founder: genetics of introduced Carduelis chloris (greenfinch) populations in New Zealand. Heredity 77, 410-422.
32. Nei, M. 1978 Estimation of average heterozygosity and genetic distance from a small number of individuals. Genetics 89, 583-590.
33. Norwegian Nature Conservation Agency 2002 See www.ninaniku.no/skandulv.htm.
34. n markers for genetic-mapping in dog. Genomics 16, 207-213.
35. Pritchard, J. K., Stephens, M. & Donnelly, P. 2000 Inference of population structure using multilocus genotype data. Genetics 155, 945-959.
36. Pusey, A. & Wolf, M. 1996 Inbreeding avoidance in animals. Trends Ecol. Evol. 11, 201-209.
37. Saccheri, I. J. & Brakefield, P. M. 2002 Rapid spread of immigrant genomes into inbred populations. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 269, 1073-1078. (DOI 10.1098/rspb.2002.1963.)
38. Saccheri, I., Kuussaari, M., Kankare, M., Vikman, P., Fortelius, W. & Hanski, I. 1998 Inbreeding and extinction in a butterfly metapopulation. Nature 392, 491-494.
39. Sambrook, E., Fritsch, F. & Maniatis, T. 1989 Molecular cloning. Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Press.
40. Shibuya, H., Collins, B. K., Huang, T. H. & Johnson, G. S. 1994 A polymorphic (AGGAAT)n tandem repeat in an intron of the canine von Willebrand factor gene. Anim. Genet. 25, 122.
41. Smith, D., Meier, T., Geffen, E., Mech, L. D., Burch, J. W., Adams, L. G. & Wayne, R. K. 1997 Is incest common in gray wolf packs? Behav. Ecol. 8, 384-391.
42. Spielman, D. & Frankham, R. 1992 Modelling problems in conservation genetics using captive Drosophila populations: improvement of reproductive fitness due to immigration of one individual into small partially inbred populations. Zoo Biol. 11, 343-351.
43. Sundqvist, A.-K., Ellegren, H., Olivier, M. & Vilà, C. 2001 Y chromosome haplotyping in Scandinavian wolves (Canis lupus) based on microsatellite markers. Mol. Ecol. 10, 1959-1966.
44. Swedish Nature Conservation Agency 2002 See www.ninaniku.no/skandulv.htm.
45. Tarr, C. L., Conant, S. & Fleischer, R. C. 1998 Founder effects and variation at microsatellite loci in an insular passerine bird, the Laysan finch (Telespiza cantans). Mol. Ecol. 7, 719-731.
46. Vilà, C., Amorim, I. R., Leonard, J. A., Posada, D., Castroviejo, J., Petrucci-Fonseca, F., Crandall, K. A., Ellegren, H. & Wayne, R. K. 1999 Mitochondrial DNA phylogeography and population history of the grey wolf Canis lupus. Mol. Ecol. 8, 2089-2103.
47. Wabakken, P., Aronson, Å., Sand, H., Steinset, O. K. & Kojola, I. 1999 Ulv i Skandinavia: statusrapport for vinteren 1998-1999. Rapport nr 19: Naturvårdsverket, Sverige, Fylkesmennene i Hedmark, Oslo & Akershus, Østfold fylker & Direktoratet for naturforvaltning. (ISBN: 82-7671-080-8.) (In Norwegian.)
48. Wabakken, P., Sand, H., Liberg, O. & Bjärvall, A. 2001a The recovery, distribution, and population dynamics of wolves on the Scandinavian peninsula, 1978-1998. Can. J. Zool. 79, 710-725.
49. Wabakken, P., Aronson, Å., Sand, H., Steinset, O. K. & Kojola, I. 2001b Ulv i Skandinavia: statusrapport for vinteren 2000-2001. Rapport nr 1-2001: Norsk institutt for naturforskning (NINA), Direktoratet for naturforvaltning & Naturvårdsverket, Sverige. (ISBN: 82-7671-165-0.) (In Norwegian.)
50. Wabakken, P., Aronson, Å., Steinset, O. K. & Sand, H. 2002 Foreløpig statusrapport om ulv i Skandinavia vinteren 2001/2002. www.ninaniku.no/skandulv. (In Norwegian.)
51. Wayne, R. K. (and 10 others) 1991 Conservation genetics of the endangered Isle Royale gray wolf. Conserv. Biol. 5, 41-51.
52. Weir, B. S. & Cockerham, C. C. 1984 Estimating F-statistics for the analysis of population structure. Evolution 38, 1358-1370.
53. Westemeier, R. L., Brawn, J. D., Simpson, S. A., Esker, T. L., Jansen, R. W., Walk, J. W., Kershner, E. L., Bouzat, J. L. & Paige, K. N. 1998 Tracking the long-term decline and recovery of an isolated population. Science 282, 1695-1698.
54. Whitlock, M. C., Ingvarsson, P. K. & Hatfield, T. 2000 Local drift load and the heterosis of interconnected populations. Heredity 84, 452-457.