Hybridisation with introduced chukars (Alectoris chukar) threatens the gene pool integrity of native rock (A. graeca) and red-legged (A. rufa) partridge populations

Biological Conservation

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 57-69

  Barilani, Marina ^a   Bernard Laurent, Ariane ^b   Mucci, Nadia ^a   Tabarroni, Cristiano ^c   Kark, Salit ^d   Perez Garrido, Josè Antonio ^e   Randi, Ettore ^a  

^a Istituto Nazionale per la Fauna Selvatica   (Italy)

^b OFFICE NATIONAL DE LA CHASSE ET DE LA FAUNE SAUVAGE   (France)

^c The Institute of Life Sciences ^*  (Italy)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Admixture analysis; Alectoris; Introgression; Microsatellites; mtDNA control region; Outbreeding depression; Partridge conservation genetics

Indexed keywords

DNA FINGERPRINTING; FITNESS; GAMEBIRD; GENE; GENOTYPE; HYBRIDIZATION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; INTROGRESSION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NATIVE SPECIES; NATURAL SELECTION; POPULATION DECLINE;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

ALECTORIS; ALECTORIS CHUKAR; ALECTORIS GRAECA; ALECTORIS RUFA; AVES;

EID: 34047236467     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2007.01.014     Document Type: Article

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