Fig. 3: Population differentiation from the captive population. | Nature Communications

Fig. 3: Population differentiation from the captive population.

From: The architecture of assisted colonisation in sea turtles: building new populations in a biodiversity crisis

Fig. 3

A Number of wild (orange) and inferred (green) mothers and number of nests assigned respectively according to parentage analysis using COLONY. B Percentage of nests in Grand Cayman (GC) and Little Cayman (LC) found to be related or unrelated to the Cayman Turtle Farm (CTF) breeding stock as shown by Coancestry and ML-Relate. Both new populations show a high degree of relatedness to the CTF captive population. C Discriminant Analysis of Principal Components (n = 406 individuals) of GC and LC nests, and CTF breeders, showing the dispersion of the genotypes of the new populations due to a founder effect; the inset shows Principal Component Analysis eigenvalues, retained axes are in black. D Frequency of D-Loop haplotypes found in GC and LC nests indicating variations in the frequencies, probably caused by the founder effect. Blue shaded haplotypes belong to the Northern lineage and the red haplotype to the Southern lineage29.

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