Genic variation in the coyote,Canis latrans, in Tennessee, U.S.A.

✍ Scribed by M. J. Hamilton; M. L. Kennedy

• Book ID: 104624982
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 453 KB
• Volume: 71
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-6707
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00057690

✦ Synopsis

Protein variation, levels of heterozygosity, and interlocality gene variation were studied in the coyote, Canis latrans, using starch gel electrophoresis. Canis latrans were obtained from 27 counties in Tennessee. Eleven of 20 loci examined were found to be polymorphic with the remaining nine loci fixed for the same gene in all populations. Mean heterozygosity (I~) varied from 0.0%0 to 1.9% with a mean of 0.9%. These values are low for a mammal. Significant heterozygote deficiencies occurred in most groups. Results of F-statistics indicated a significant degree of population differentiation at four loci (Gdh,. Rogers' coefficients of genetic similarity ranged from 0.950 to 1.000 and showed C. latrans to be genetically homogenous in that portion of the range investigated.