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Genetic structure among wild populations of Elliot's Pheasant Syrmaticus ellioti in China from mitochondrial DNA analyses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 May 2007

Ping Ping Jiang ,
Yun Fa Ge ,
Qiu Lei Lang  and
Ping Ding
Ping Ping Jiang
Affiliation:
College of Life Sciences, Zijingang Campus of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, Hangzhou, P. R. China, and State Conservation Centre for Gene Resources of Endangered Wildlife, and Key Laboratory of Conservation Genetics and Reproductive Biology for Endangered Wild Animals of the Ministry of Education, Zhejiang Province, P. R. China.
Yun Fa Ge
Affiliation:
College of Life Sciences, Zijingang Campus of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, Hangzhou, P. R. China, and State Conservation Centre for Gene Resources of Endangered Wildlife, and Key Laboratory of Conservation Genetics and Reproductive Biology for Endangered Wild Animals of the Ministry of Education, Zhejiang Province, P. R. China.
Qiu Lei Lang
Affiliation:
College of Life Sciences, Zijingang Campus of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, Hangzhou, P. R. China, and State Conservation Centre for Gene Resources of Endangered Wildlife, and Key Laboratory of Conservation Genetics and Reproductive Biology for Endangered Wild Animals of the Ministry of Education, Zhejiang Province, P. R. China.
Ping Ding*
Affiliation:
College of Life Sciences, Zijingang Campus of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, Hangzhou, P. R. China, and State Conservation Centre for Gene Resources of Endangered Wildlife, and Key Laboratory of Conservation Genetics and Reproductive Biology for Endangered Wild Animals of the Ministry of Education, Zhejiang Province, P. R. China.
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*Author for correspondence; e-mail: [email protected]
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Genetic structure among five populations of Elliot's Pheasant sampled from five different provinces – Anhui (AH), Zhejiang (ZJ), Fujian (FJ), Hunan (HN) and Guizhou (GZ) – was assayed using mitochondrial control region sequences from 33 individuals. Using AMOVA, we found a high level of haplotype variation within populations, and a degree of genetic structure among groups (GZ population relative to all others pooled). However, this difference was not statistically significant and little geographical structure was indicated among the remaining populations. Furthermore, using a rooted maximum parsimony tree, we found the sequences of the GZ population were largely grouped in their own branch, while sequences of the other four populations were interspersed among branches. We identified a lower level of gene flow between the GZ population and all others, a finding supported by significant FST values. Conversely, we identified a larger amount of gene flow between the remaining four populations, particularly among the three easternmost populations (AH, ZJ and FJ). Given our results, further study should be focused on the GZ population and on management units for the purpose of maintaining the genetic structure of the species in the west of China.

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Research Article
Information
Bird Conservation International , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , June 2007 , pp. 177 - 185
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Copyright © Birdlife International 2007