期刊
MOLECULAR ECOLOGY
卷 19, 期 23, 页码 5090-5100出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04895.x
关键词
conservation; hybridization; introgression; kaki; outbreeding depression; poaka
资金
- New Zealand Department of Conservation
- New Zealand Lottery Grants Board [203706]
- Foundation for Research Science and Technology [C09X0503]
- National Sciences and Engineering Research Council [PDF-301225-2004]
- University of Canterbury
Hybridization facilitated by human activities has dramatically altered the evolutionary trajectories of threatened taxa around the globe. Whereas introduced mammalian predators and widespread habitat loss and degradation clearly imperil the recovery and survival of the New Zealand endemic black stilt or kaki (Himantopus novaezelandiae), the risk associated with hybridization between this critically endangered endemic and its self-introduced congener, the pied stilt or poaka (Himantopus himantopus leucocephalus) is less clear. Here, we combine Bayesian admixture analyses of microsatellite data with mitochondrial DNA sequence data to assess the levels of hybridization and introgression between kaki and poaka. We show that birds classified as hybrids on the basis of adult plumage are indeed of hybrid origin and that hybridization between kaki and poaka is both extensive and bidirectional. Despite this, we found almost no evidence for introgression from poaka to kaki, thus negating the popular belief that kaki represent a hybrid swarm. To our knowledge, ours represents the first comprehensive study to document a lack of widespread introgression for a species at risk despite a recent history of extensive bidirectional human-induced hybridization. We attribute this rather surprising result, in part, to reduced reproductive success in female hybrids combined with a transient male-biased kaki sex ratio. To maximize the evolutionary potential of kaki, we use these data to recommend conservation management activities aimed to maintain the genetic integrity and to maximize the genetic diversity of this iconic rare bird.
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