MATRIARCHAL POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE IN AN AVIAN SPECIES WITH FEMALE NATAL PHILOPATRY.

• Main Authors: Avise, John C, Alisauskas, Ray T, Nelson, William S, Ankney, C Davison
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 1992
• Subjects: Gene flow; matrilines; mitochondrial DNA; natal homing; phylogeography; population structure; Evolutionary Biology; Ecology; Arctic; Baffin Island; Wrangel Island; Baffin
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2fk0p7tj

We employ mitochondrial (mt) DNA markers to examine the matrilineal component of population genetic structure in the snow goose Chen caerulescens. From banding returns, it is known that females typically nest at their natal or prior nest site, whereas males pair with females on mixed wintering groun...