ARONIA SEMINAR 02.02.2012 at 14: Bottlenecks and founder effects: Genetics of house sparrow and white-tailed deer

02.02.2012 at 14
Novia Campus Raseborg room B 149 (Bombskyddet)

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Dr Jon Brommer, University of Helsinki

Bottlenecks and founder effects: Genetics of house sparrow and white-tailed deer

Bottlenecks and founder effects refers to potential changes in genetic composition in a population which may occur when a population is temporarily much reduced in its size. A potential bottleneck situation is explored in the house sparrow, a species which has in Finland and in many other places, suffered from a drastic reduction in population size. The bottleneck situation is demonstrated in the Finnish population of white-tailed deer; an introduced species founded by the realease of four individuals in 1934.