Allozymic variation was surveyed in 21 European polecats Mustela putorius Linnaeus, 1758 from western France, using starch gel electrophoresis. Fourteen loci were successfully examined and genetic variation was detected at 28.6% of the loci at the 0.05 level. Heterozygosity level averaged 0.082. European polecats from western France clearly showed significant levels of genetic variability. This result contrasts with previously reported analyses from Danish populations.
Samples from 15 populations of the Alpine marmot Marmota m. marmota (Linnaeus, 1758) were surveyed electrophoretically for allozyme variation. Only 2 out of 50 enzyme loci showed polymorphism. Average heterozygosity was found to be low with 1.2%. No rare alleles were detected among the 8430 genes examined. The geographic variation at the two polymorphic loci (Pep-1 and Sod-1) was analysed in more detail. The distribution pattern of the allele frequencies indicates genetic differentiation between autochthonous and introduced populations. No striking deviations of the genotype distributions from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium were observed. Thus the population structure is apparently not affected by inbreeding. The obviously diminished genetic variation and the geographic pattern of the allele frequencies at the two variable loci can be best explained by assuming a severe bottleneck in the recent past.
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