EJPAU 2008. Czyżowski P. , Karpiński M. , Drozd L. MOLECULAR INVESTIGATION OF PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS AND PHYLOGEOGRAPHY OF POLISH PHEASANTS USING THE MITOCHONDRIAL <I>CYTOCHROME B</I> GENE SEQUENCE

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Czyżowski P. , Karpiński M. , Drozd L. 2008. MOLECULAR INVESTIGATION OF PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS AND PHYLOGEOGRAPHY OF POLISH PHEASANTS USING THE MITOCHONDRIAL CYTOCHROME B GENE SEQUENCE, EJPAU 11(4), #13.
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MOLECULAR INVESTIGATION OF PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS AND PHYLOGEOGRAPHY OF POLISH PHEASANTS USING THE MITOCHONDRIAL CYTOCHROME B GENE SEQUENCE

Piotr Czyżowski, Mirosław Karpiński, Leszek Drozd
Department of Pet Breeding and Wildlife Management, University of Lifes Science in Lublin, Poland

ABSTRACT

Samples of soft tissue (muscle) from wild and pen-reared
ring-neck pheasants (Phasianus colchicus) were collected from the central
and western regions of Lublin Upland by hunting. This population has been
regularly introduced into wild populations each year for the last thirty
years. No sequence differences were identified within a 236 bp conserved part
of the cytochrome b gene from pheasants sourced with wild and pen-reared
populations. We also investigated differences in cytochrome b sequences
from Polish pheasant populations and Asian pheasants (evaluated in other studies).
We found that genetic distances between mtDNA haplotypes of pheasants show only
minor variations, which suggest that the evaluated region of the cytochrome
b gene is well conserved within the genus Phasianus.

Key words: cyt b, mtDNA cytochrome b, pheasant, polymorphism.

Piotr Czyżowski
Department of Pet Breeding and Wildlife Management,
University of Lifes Science in Lublin, Poland
Akademicka 13, 20-950 Lublin, Poland
Phone: 048 081 445 68 89
email: piotr.czyzowski@up.lublin.pl

Mirosław Karpiński
Department of Pet Breeding and Wildlife Management,
University of Lifes Science in Lublin, Poland
Akademicka 13, 20-950 Lublin, Poland
Phone: 048 081 445 68 89
email: miroslaw.karpinski@up.lublin.pl

Leszek Drozd
Department of Pet Breeding and Wildlife Management,
University of Lifes Science in Lublin, Poland
Akademicka 13, 20-950 Lublin, Poland
Phone: 048 81 445 68 83
email: leszek.drozd@up.lublin.pl

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