title: [Genetic variability in Neotropical deer genera (Mammalia: Cervidae) according to DNA microsatellite loci].
abstract: Species conservation programs are highly based on analyses of population genetics. We compared eight Neotropical Cervidae (Mazama americana, M. gouzaoubira, M. rufina, Odocoileus virginianus, Hippocamelus antisensis, Pudu mephistopholes, Ozotoceros bezoarticus and Blastoceros dichotomus) and some European and Asian Cervidae (Cervus elaphus, C. nippon, Capreolus capreolus, C. pygargus and Dama dama). The European species C. elaphus was our standard for a high degree of genetic variability: we used a Scottish population originated in the mix of diverse Western European subspecies. On the contrary, Cervus nippon (a population from Scotland with a founder effect) was our standard for a depauperated population. The M. americana, M. gouzaoubira and O. virginianus samples had high diversity values close to our C. elaphus population (H = 0.64, 0.70 and 0.61, respectively), while M. rufina was very low, close to C. nippon. Several sample sets of Mazama and Odocoileus yielded a homozygote excess, probably due to the Wahlund (subdivison) effect. There was no evidence of recent bottleneck events.
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Genética (Genética de Poblaciones-Biología Evolutiva), Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Cra 7A No 43-82, Bogotá DC, Colombia. mruiz@javeriana.edu.co
authors.forename: Manuel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ruiz-García
authors.forename: María
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Martinez-Agüero
authors.forename: Diana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Alvarez
authors.forename: Simon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Goodman
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003670:Deer / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*; D014644:Genetic Variation; D005843:Geography; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats / Q000235:genetics*