Holarctic phylogeographic structure of Eurasian wigeon (Mareca penelope)

• Published in: Vavilov Journal of Genetics and Breeding
• Main Authors: I. V. Kulikova, Y. N. Zhuravlev, I. G. Korobitsyn, G. A. Nemkova, K. G. McCracken, J. L. Peters
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Russian
• Published: Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Federal Research Center Institute of Cytology and Genetics, The Vavilov Society of Geneticists and Breeders 2019
• Subjects: phylogeography; population genetic structure; wigeon; mareca penelope; control region; mtdna; Genetics; QH426-470; Chukotka; Kamchatka; Kamchatka Peninsula; Alaska; Aleutian Islands; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.18699/VJ19.503; https://doaj.org/article/8ecde915865748a58de037d5c6cc7f39

The Eurasian wigeon (Mareca penelope) is one of the most numerous migrant species of waterfowl in the Palearctic. Annually, significant part of the world’s wigeon population makes seasonal flights over distances from tens to thousands or more kilometers. According to different estimates based on ban...