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The Tsushima leopard cat exhibits extremely low genetic diversity compared with the Korean Amur leopard cat: Implications for conservation
- Source :
- PeerJ, Vol 7, p e7297 (2019), PeerJ
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- PeerJ, 2019.
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Abstract
- We examined genetic diversity of the wild Tsushima leopard cat—a regional population of the Amur leopard cat—using microsatellite markers. In addition, we compared genetic diversity of the Tsushima leopard cat with that of the Korean population of Amur leopard cat. Although bias should be considered when applying cross-species amplification, the Tsushima leopard cat showed a lower index of molecular genetic diversity than did the Korean population. These results were consistent with those obtained using other genetic markers, such as mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosome sequences. This low genetic diversity of the wild Tsushima leopard cat may be derived from the founding population. Furthermore, our results suggest that the captive populations held in Japanese zoos may show extremely low genetic diversity, leading to difficulties in genetic management of the Tsushima leopard cat. Moreover, the two regional populations were clearly separated using these marker sets. In the present study, we demonstrated that the genetic diversity of the Tsushima leopard cat is extremely low compared with that of the continental regional population. Importantly, the Japanese captive population forex situconservation was derived from a founding population with extremely low genetic diversity; hence, we assume that both the captive and wild populations showed extremely low genetic diversities. Our findings emphasize the need to develop carefully considered management strategies for genetic conservation.
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
Mitochondrial DNA
Conservation Biology
Population
lcsh:Medicine
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Genetic diversity
03 medical and health sciences
biology.animal
Genetics
education
030304 developmental biology
0303 health sciences
education.field_of_study
biology
General Neuroscience
lcsh:R
Leopard
General Medicine
Biodiversity
Tsushima leopard cat
biology.organism_classification
Ex situ conservation
Amur leopard
Genetic marker
Evolutionary biology
Microsatellite
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Zoology
human activities
Molecular genetic analysis
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 21678359
- Volume :
- 7
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PeerJ
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....94e6632206976299139774ed7e13ef7a