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Combining Bayesian genetic clustering and ecological niche modeling: Insights into wolf intraspecific genetic structure.
The distribution of intraspecific genetic variation and the way it pertains to environmental components is of accelerating curiosity to researchers in macroecology and biogeography. Recent research investigated the relationships between the setting and patterns of intraspecific genetic variation throughout species ranges however solely few rigorously examined the relation between genetic teams and their ecological niches. We quantified the connection of genetic differentiation (FST) and the overlap of ecological niches (as measured by n-dimensional hypervolumes) amongst genetic teams ensuing from spatial Bayesian genetic clustering within the wolf (Canis lupus) within the Italian peninsula. Within the Italian wolf inhabitants, 4 genetic clusters had been detected, and these clusters confirmed totally different ecological niches.…