Authors:	Hoffmann, Gunther Sebastian Johannesen, Jes Griebeler, Eva Maria
Title:	Population dynamics of a natural red deer population over 200 years detected via substantial changes of genetic variation
Online publication date:	4-Oct-2022
Year of first publication:	2016
Language:	english
Abstract:	Most large mammals have constantly been exposed to anthropogenic influence over decades or even centuries. Because of their long generation times and lack of sampling material, inferences of past population genetic dynamics, including anthropogenic impacts, have only relied on the analysis of the structure of extant populations. Here, we investigate for the first time the change in the genetic constitution of a natural red deer population over two centuries, using up to 200-year-old antlers (30 generations) stored in trophy collections. To the best of our knowledge, this is the oldest DNA source ever used for microsatellite population genetic analyses. We demonstrate that government policy and hunting laws may have strong impacts on populations that can lead to unexpectedly rapid changes in the genetic constitution of a large mammal population. A high ancestral individual polymorphism seen in an outbreeding population (1813–1861) was strongly reduced in descendants (1923–1940) during the mid-19th and early 20th century by genetic bottlenecks. Today (2011), individual polymorphism and variance among individuals is increasing in a constant-sized (managed) population. Differentiation was high among periods (FST > ***); consequently, assignment tests assigned individuals to their own period with >85% probability. In contrast to the high variance observed at nuclear microsatellite loci, mtDNA (D-loop) was monomorphic through time, suggesting that male immigration dominates the genetic evolution in this population.
DDC:	590 Tiere (Zoologie) 590 Zoological sciences
Institution:	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Department:	FB 10 Biologie
Place:	Mainz
ROR:	https://ror.org/023b0x485
DOI:	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-7816
Version:	Published version
Publication type:	Zeitschriftenaufsatz
License:	CC BY
Information on rights of use:	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Journal:	Ecology and evolution 6 10
Pages or article number:	3146 3153
Publisher:	John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Publisher place:	S.l.
Issue date:	2016
ISSN:	2045-7758
Publisher URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2063
Publisher DOI:	10.1002/ece3.2063
Appears in collections:	DFG-OA-Publizieren (2012 - 2017)