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Population genetic analysis of alien species in Baltic countries
Type of publication
Tezės kitame recenzuojamame leidinyje / Theses in other peer-reviewed publication (T1e)
Title
Population genetic analysis of alien species in Baltic countries
Is part of
Biologija = Biology. Vilnius : Lietuvos mokslų akademijos leidykla, 2012, vol. 58, Nr. 3
Date Issued
Date Issued |
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2012 |
Publisher
Vilnius : Lietuvos mokslų akademijos leidykla
Extent
p. 127-127
Field of Science
Abstract
The study of genetic diversity to invasiveness and patterns of adaptation and naturalisation of diverse alien organisms (viruses, plankton algae, plants, animals and their parasites), and pathways of the distribution and origin of the alien species were analised. The results of 24 research projects (2010–2011) from The National Research Program “Ecosystems in Lithuania: climate change and human impact”, approved by the Act V-951 of the Lithuanian Minister of Education and Science on June 19, 2010 are present. Population genetics can answer questions about the demographic and geographic dynamics of recent biological invasions. To identify the geographic source of introduced alien populations and determine the number of introductions, the native range of the invasive species must be thoroughly sampled and potential source populations must be sufficiently differentiated using molecular population genetics. Detecting bottlenecks in recent invasions seems to be a common component of attempting to assess genetic structure of invasive species. Investigators are interested in understanding the initial conditions of the invasion in order to better control and predict future invasions. Population genetics can characterizing the processes that have caused and maintain the population structure of an invasive species, significant migration occurs among established populations. Such information might be used to intuit the factors that either inhibit, or facilitate, gene flow among populations, useful for understanding the factors that influence the rate of spread, or the location of the initial introduction, much as the field of phylogeography aims at understanding the history of native taxa and hybridization with native species.
Type of document
type::text::conference output::conference proceedings::conference paper
Language
Anglų / English (en)
Coverage Spatial
Lietuva / Lithuania (LT)
Description
5th Baltic congress of genetics, 19-22 October 2012, Kaunas Lithuania : programme and abstracts
Date Reporting
2013