Download or read book Functional Genetic Diversity in American Mink (Neovison Vison) written by Kimberley Morris (Y.) and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The release of domestic organisms to the wild is considered a threat to biodiversitybecause the introduction of domestic genesthrough interbreeding can negatively impact wild conspecifics viaoutbreeding and local extinction. In North America, captive American mink (Neovison vison)are frequently escaping into the wild, yet theimpact of these events on the functional genetic diversity of wild mink populations isunclear. Icharacterized domestic and wild mink in Ontario at 17trinucleotidemicrosatellites located in functional genesthought to be associated with traits affected by domestication.Ifound low functional genetic diversity, as only 4 of 17 genes were variableand of those four there was little evidence of allele frequency differences between domestic and wild mink. Using redundancyanalysisand a spatial analysis of principal components onthefour variable loci (AR, ATN1, IGF-1, and TOB1) Ifound no evidence to suggest domestic release events are affectingfunctionalgenetic diversity of free-ranging minkat the set of markers assessed.Keywords:domestication, introgression, functional gene, American mink, Neovison vison.