Coexistence and population genetic structure of the whooper swan Cygnus cygnus and mute swan Cygnus olor in Lithuania and Latvia

• Published in: Open Life Sciences
• Main Authors: Butkauskas, Dalius, Švažas, Saulius, Tubelytė-Kirdienė, Vaida, Morkūnas, Julius, Sruoga, Aniolas, Boiko, Dmitrijs, Paulauskas, Algimantas, Stanevičius, Vitas, Baublys, Vykintas
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Cygnus cygnus; Cygnus olor; D-loop; Population genetic structure; Straipsnis Clarivate Analytics Web of Science / Article in Clarivate Analytics Web of Science (S1); Biologija / Biology (N010); Olor; Whooper Swan
• Online Access: http://link.springer.com/article/10.2478%2Fs11535-012-0065-9#page-1; https://doi.org/10.2478/s11535-012-0065-9

Two closely related swan species, the mute swan Cygnus olor and the whooper swan Cygnus cygnus, were formerly allopatric throughout their breeding ranges, but during the last decades a sympatric distribution has become characteristic of these species in the Baltic Sea region. The whooper swan has gr...