Mitochondrial DNA diversity of the vulnerable Chinese Egret (Egretta eulophotes) from China |
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Authors: | Xiaoping Zhou Wenzhen Fang and Xiaolin Chen |
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Institution: | (1) Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Coast and Wetland Ecosystems, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, 361005 Xiamen, People’s Republic of China; |
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Abstract: | The genetic diversity and population structure of the vulnerable Chinese Egret (Egretta eulophotes) were surveyed in the present study from three archipelagoes that cover the most southerly to the very northerly parts of
the Chinese distribution range of this species, using a 433-bp fragment of the mitochondrial control region (CR). Among 90
individual samples, 31 different haplotypes were defined by 30 polymorphic sites. Overall haplotype diversity, nucleotide
diversity and mean sequence divergence (p-distance) of this egret were 0.920, 0.0088 and 1.11%, respectively. NJ tree and
parsimony network for the CR haplotypes of the Chinese Egret showed little genetic structure, and analysis of molecular variance
indicated low but significant genetic differentiation (haplotype-based ΦST = 0.03267, P < 0.05 and distance-based ΦST = 0.04194, P < 0.05) among populations. The significant Fu’s F
S
tests (Fu’s F
S
= −16.946, P < 0.01) and mismatch distribution analysis (τ = 4.463, SSD = 0.0081, P = 0.12) suggested that the low genetic differentiation and little geographical structure of the genetic differentiation might
be explained by the population expansion. The Mantel test (haplotype-based F
ST, r = 0.639, P = 0.34 and distance-based F
ST, r = 0.947, P = 0.15) suggest that the significant genetic differentiation among populations was likely due to isolation by distance. |
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