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Journal of Heredity Advance Access originally published online on July 12, 2006
Journal of Heredity 2006 97(5):525-530; doi:10.1093/jhered/esl012
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Mitochondrial DNA and Microsatellite DNA Variation in Domestic Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus) and Relationships with Wild Caribou (Rangifer tarandus granti, Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus, and Rangifer tarandus caribou)

Matthew A. Cronin, Michael D. MacNeil, and John C. Patton

From the School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, 533 E. Fireweed Ave., Palmer, AK 99645 (Cronin); the Agricultural Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, 243 Fort Keogh Road, Miles City, MT 59301 (MacNeil); and the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843 (Patton)

Address correspondence to M. A. Cronin at the address above, or e-mail: ffmac1{at}uaf.edu.

Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus) in Alaska are semidomestic livestock descended from 1280 animals introduced from Siberia, Russia, approximately 100 years ago. Genetic variation at 18 microsatellite DNA loci and the cytochrome b gene of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) was quantified in reindeer from Alaska, Siberia (Russia), and Scandinavia and compared with wild North American caribou. Mean sequence divergence among 15 mtDNA haplotypes in reindeer was 0.007 substitutions per nucleotide site, and reindeer mtDNA is polyphyletic with caribou mtDNA. Microsatellite allele and mtDNA haplotype frequencies are similar between Alaskan and Russian reindeer and differentiated between these and Scandinavian reindeer. The frequencies of microsatellite alleles and mtDNA haplotypes are different in reindeer and wild caribou (Rangifer tarandus granti, Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus, and Rangifer tarandus caribou). Alaskan reindeer have maintained a genetic variation comparable to that in Russia and differentiated from that of wild caribou, >100 years after their introduction to Alaska.


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