Distribution and genetic structure of the Japanese wood pigeon (Columba janthina) endemic to the islands of East Asia

Autor: Hajime Takano, Kenji Takehara, Kazuto Kawakami, Akira Endo, Shin-Ichi Seki, Nobuhiko Kotaka
Rok vydání: 2007
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Zdroj: Conservation Genetics. 8:1109-1121
ISSN: 1572-9737
1566-0621
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-006-9267-x
Popis: The Japanese wood pigeon (Columba janthina) is endemic to the islands of East Asia and it is included in the Japanese and Asian Red Lists because of its narrow habitat range that is restricted to mature forests on small islands and because of the destruction of these habitats. We examined the genetic structure of Columba janthina by studying 463 base pairs of the mitochondrial control region sequences. We analyzed 154 samples from eight populations and identified 27 haplotypes. Three population groups were identified based on the pairwise ΦST values. A substantial gene flow, as reflected by the low and non-significant ΦST values, is maintained among the northern group that includes six populations found on the Okinawa, Tokara, Goto, Setouchi, Oki, and Izu islands. In contrast, the southeastern group found on the Ogasawara Islands had large ΦST values with every population from other regions (0.910
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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