Journal
FRESHWATER BIOLOGY
Volume 58, Issue 10, Pages 2089-2101Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/fwb.12193
Keywords
biological invasion; brown trout; introgression; landscape genetics; molecular markers
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- Universita Politecnica delle Marche (Ancona, Italy)
- provincial administrations of Pesaro-Urbino and Ancona
- ASTERIA Institute (Istituto per lo Sviluppo Tecnologico e la Ricerca Applicata, Monteprandone, Ascoli Piceno, Italy)
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1. Overharvesting, habitat alteration and pollution have contributed to the decline of many wild populations of brown trout in Europe. Since the mid-19th century, stocking with domestic strains has added a further threat to their genetic integrity. In this study, we adopted a landscape genetic approach to evaluate the role of environmental factors in promoting or hindering invasion by an alien genome. 2. Two classes of molecular markers (LDH-C1* locus and mtDNA) were used to evaluate the level of introgression between native and domestic strains of brown trout in Central Italy. A multivariate method (redundancy analysis, RDA) was employed to find relationships between genetic diversity and 19 environmental variables that describe lithology, geomorphology, fish community and human activities. 3. The RDA indicated that streams with more stable ecological conditions sustain almost pure native populations, whereas streams characterised by unpredictable hydrological conditions harbour populations with high levels of introgression or pure for foreign genotypes. 4. Our study revealed that the outcome of supplementary stocking with hatchery-reared brown trout is strongly linked to the environmental features of different drainage basins.
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