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Wildlife genetics and disease: allozyme evolution in the wild boar (Sus scrofa) caused by a swine fever epidemy |
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| Authors: | Stéphane Lang Bernard Pesson Francois Klein Arnd Schreiber |
| Affiliation: | 1.Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Louis Pasteur, 74 Route du Rhin, 67400 Illkirch-Graffenstaden, France;2.Office national de la chasse, Au bord du Rhin, 67150 Gerstheim, France;3.Zoologisches Institut I, Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 230, 69120 Heidelberg, Duetschland |
| Abstract: | Enzyme polymorphism at 42 loci was compared before and after a major epidemy of swine fever in wild boars from northern Vosges (France). No change was observed in the 38 monomorphic loci, but allele frequencies at the phosphoglucomutase locus PGM-2* changed significantly. Possible causes for this observation are discussed, and it appears that PGM-2 locus could be a genetic marker of resistance to this viral disease. |
| Keywords: | population genetics wild boar Sus scrofa hog cholera natural selection |