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), La Rochelle Université (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), LTSER Zone Atelier Armorique (LTSER), Université d'Angers (UA), Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Unité de recherche Plantes et Systèmes de Culture Horticoles (PSH)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2019
• Subjects: Raptor; Spatial genetic structure; Relatedness; Microsatellites; Circus pygargus; Circus cyaneus; Circus aeruginosus; [SDV.GEN.GPO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics/Populations and Evolution [q-bio.PE]; Hen
• Online Access: https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-03516844; 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...