Occasional long-distance dispersal may not prevent inbreeding in a threatened butterfly
(2021) Ethology Ecology & Evolution. Special Issue — Vol. 21, n° 1, p. 224 (2021)
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De Ro, Annelore 
Vanden Broeck, An Verschaeve, Leen Maes, Dirk
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- Background To set up successful conservation measures, detailed knowledge on the dispersal and colonization capacities of the focal species and connectivity between populations is of high relevance. We developed species-specific nuclear microsatellite molecular markers for the grayling (Hipparchia semele), a butterfly endemic to Europe and of growing conservation concern in North-West Europe, and report on its population genetics, in a fragmented, anthropogenic landscape in Belgium. Our study included samples from 23 different locations nested in two regions and additional historical samples from two locations. We assessed contemporary, long-distance dispersal based on genetic assignment tests and investigated the effect of habitat loss and fragmentation on the population genetic structure and genetic variation using data of nine microsatellite loci.
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De Ro, A., Vanden Broeck, A., Verschaeve, L., Jacobs, I., T’Jollyn, F., Van Dyck, H., & Maes, D. (2021). Occasional long-distance dispersal may not prevent inbreeding in a threatened butterfly. Ethology Ecology & Evolution. Special Issue, 21(1), 224. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-021-01953-z (Original work published 2021)