Spatio-genetic population structure in mustached tamarins,Saguinus mystax
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Abteilung für Verhaltensökologie & Soziobiologie, Deutsches PrimatenzentrumGene Bank of Primates, FG Primatengenetik, Deutsches Primatenzentrum
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2007
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Dispersal and philopatry influence gene flow and thus the spatio-genetic structure within and between populations. In callitrichids the flexible social and mating system corresponds with a variable migration pattern where both sexes might be philopatric or might disperse. We investigated the relationship between the spatiogenetic structure and migration patterns in a population of mustached tamarins, Saguinus mystax. Using the rapidly evolving hypervariable region I (HVI) of the mitochondrial control region and 11 microsatellite markers we detected a high variation (HVI: 16 haplotypes in 69 individuals; microsatellites: HO ¼ 0.75, average: 7.45 alleles/locus), with mating partners usually not sharing the same haplotype, indicating that matings are generally between partners that are not closely related. Similar high variance of haplotype differences for male-male and female-female pairs, along with a slightly higher number of haplotype differences in males show that both sexes habitually migrate. Spatial analyses suggest that females usually migrate longer distances, corresponding to very limited breeding positions for females in a polyandrous social mating system.Citation
Spatio-genetic population structure in mustached tamarins,Saguinus mystax 2007, 132 (4):576 American Journal of Physical AnthropologyJournal
American Journal of Physical AnthropologyDOI
10.1002/ajpa.20559Additional Links
http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/ajpa.20559Type
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0002948310968644
ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1002/ajpa.20559
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