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Genetic structure of Black Grouse (Tetrao tetrix) populations of the French Alps

Structuration génétique des populations de tétras-lyre (Tetrao tetrix) des Alpes françaises

Genetics Selection Evolution volume 33, Article number: S177 (2001) Cite this article

Abstract

Allelic variation at eight microsatellite loci was used to assess the levels of genetic differentiation between seven natural populations of black grouse (Tetrao tetrix) in the French Alps spaced along a 250 km south-north transect. Whatever the population or locus, genotype frequencies did not deviate significantly from expected Hardy-Weinberg frequencies and no significant between-locus linkage desequilibrium was detected. Observed levels of genotypic variation were statistically significant with maximum Fst values reaching 10% for the most distant populations (250 km). An isolation-by-distance effect was detected suggesting, as expected from data on marked birds, that black grouse populations in the French Alps are interconnected by dispersal.

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La structuration génétique de sept populations naturelles de Tétras-lyre selon un transect allant de la Haute-Savoie aux Alpes maritimes a été étudiée au moyen de huit locus microsatellites. Quelles que soient les populations et les locus, les fréquences génotypiques ne s’écartent pas significativement des proportions attendues sous l’hypothèse de Hardy-Weinberg et aucun déséquilibre de liaison significatif n’a été détecté. À l’exception des populations géographiquement les plus proches (i.e., séparées d’une vingtaine de km ou moins) les différenciations géno-typiques observées sont statistiquement significatives. Les valeurs de Fst maximales obtenues entre les populations les plus éloignées (jusqu’à 250 km) avoisinent 10 %. La différenciation génotypique des populations de tétras-lyre suit clairement, à l’échelle des Alpes françaises, un modèle d’isolement par la distance. Selon ces résultats qui sont congruents avec les données obtenues au moyen de méthodes directes, les populations de Tétras-lyre des Alpes françaises seraient interconnectées.

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  1. Office national de la chasse et de la faune sauvage, Faune de montagne, 8 impasse Champ Fila, 38320, Eybens, France

    Alain Caizergues & Laurence N. Ellison

  2. Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Centre d’écologie fonctionnelle et évolutive, 1919 route de Mende, 34293, Montpellier Cedex 5, France

    Alain Caizergues

  3. Institut national de la recherche agronomique, Centre de biologie et de génétique des populations, 488 rue Croix de Lavit, 34090, Montpellier, France

    Sophie Dubois, Guénaëlle Mondor, Anne Loiseau & Jean-Yves Rasplus

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Caizergues, A., Dubois, S., Mondor, G. et al. Genetic structure of Black Grouse (Tetrao tetrix) populations of the French Alps. Genet Sel Evol 33 (Suppl 1), S177 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1186/BF03500879

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