期刊
HEREDITY
卷 104, 期 1, 页码 79-87出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2009.102
关键词
F-statistics; hierarchical analyses; mitochondrial DNA; philopatry; population genetics; sex-biased dispersal
资金
- American Society of Mammalogists
- Purdue University
- Welder Wildlife Refuge Fellow
- Saint Gobain
Recent advances in the statistical analysis of microsatellite data permit calculation of sex-specific dispersal rates through sex-and age-specific comparisons of genetic variation. This approach, developed for the analysis of data derived from codominant autosomal markers, should be applicable to a sex-specific marker such as mitochondrial DNA. To test this premise, we amplified a 449 bp control region DNA sequence from the mitochondrial genome of the collared peccary (Pecari tajacu), and estimated intra-class correlations among herds sampled from three Texas populations. Analyses on data partitioned by breeding group showed a clear signal of male-biased dispersal; sex-specific fixation indices associated with genetic variation among social groups within populations yielded values for females (F-GP=0.91), which were significantly larger than values for males (F-GP=0.24; P=0.0015). The same general pattern emerged when the analyses were conducted on age classes (albeit nonsignificantly), as well as categories of individuals that were predicted a posteriori to be dispersers (adult males) and philopatric (adult females and all immatures). By extending a previously published methodology based on biparentally inherited markers to matrilineally inherited haploid data, we calculated sex-specific rates of contemporary dispersal among social groups within populations (m(male)=0.37). These results support the idea that mitochondrial DNA haplotype frequency data can be used to estimate sex-specific instantaneous dispersal rates in a social species. Heredity (2010) 104, 79-87; doi:10.1038/hdy.2009.102; published online 29 July 2009
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