Fine-scale genetic structure in a high dispersal capacity raptor, the Montagu’s harrier (Circus pygargus), revealed by a set of novel microsatellite loci

• Published in: Genetica
• Main Authors: Ribout, C., Villers, A., Ruault, S., Bretagnolle, V., Picard, D., Monceau, K., Gauffre, Bertrand
• Other Authors: Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé - UMR 7372 (CEBC), Université de La Rochelle (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), LTSER «Zone Atelier Plaine & Val de Sevre» France, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université de La Rochelle (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université de La Rochelle (ULR), Département de Biologie UFR Sciences - Université d'Angers France, Université d'Angers (UA)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2019
• Subjects: Raptor Spatial genetic structure; Circus aeruginosus; Circus cyaneus; Circus pygargus; Microsatellites; Relatedness; [SDE]Environmental Sciences; Hen
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02108814; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10709-019-00053-7

International audience The Montagu’s harrier (Circus pygargus) is a semi-colonial raptor species widely but patchily distributed across the Palearctic region with recorded cases of philopatry and presence of extra-pair copulation. In order to assess Montagu’s harrier spatial genetic structure and co...