Population Genetic Variability of Myodes glareolus (Schreber, 1780) (Mammalia: Rodentia) Distributed in Northern Anatolia as Revealed by RAPD-PCR Analysis

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The bank vole, Myodes glareolus, lives in deciduous forests in Northern Anatolia. Eighty-four individuals collected from 17 localities in Turkey were studied to reveal the differentiation of M glareolus by RAPD markers. Fifteen RAPD markers were tested and they yielded 142 DNA bands. Nei's (1978) genetic distance and similarity calculations were used in order to show the genetic relationships between the populations studied. The total genetic diversity and genetic differentiation values were calculated as H=0.1571 and G(ST)=0.4170, respectively. Nei's genetic distance (D) ranged from 0.026 to 0.124. Thus the most genetically distant populations were Kandira and Sumela with D=0.124, while the closest ones were Sile and Kandira with D=0.026. The dendrogram based on the genetic distance data showed two main groups. The first group, including western populations, was divided into two subgroups; the first subgroup contained the Uludag population and the second subgroup the remaining western populations. The second group, including eastern populations, was also separated into two subgroups. The first subgroup consisted of the Sumela population while the other eastern populations formed the second subgroup.
Scientific Research Project Office of Ankara University [09 B 4240 001]
This study was sponsored by the Scientific Research Project Office (NO: 09 B 4240 001) of Ankara University.