Many highly mobile species, such as migratory birds, can move and disperse over long
distances, yet exhibit high levels of population genetic structuring. Although movement …

Recent research has shown that tropical seabirds specialized to feed on cold water
upwellings exhibit low population genetic differentiation and high gene flow across large …

Complete panmixia across the entire range of a species is a relatively rare phenomenon;
however, this pattern may be found in species that have limited philopatry and frequent …

The breeding biology of a captive, isolated population of Dalmatian Pelicans (Pelecanus
crispus) at the Shanghai Zoo, China, was studied from 2007 to 2019. The breeding age of …

Environmental disturbances, both natural and anthropogenic, have the capacity to
substantially impact animal behavior and abundance, which can in turn influence patterns of …

Microsatellites are highly polymorphic stretches of DNA which are made of tandem repeats 1-
6 base pair long. Due to its polymorphism, microsatellites are used as a genetic markers in …

Animal movements shape individual fitness and population-level trends, and current work
seeks to improve our understanding of movement in natural systems at a variety of …

Japanese population of the J apanese crested ibis N ipponia nippon was founded by five
individuals gifted from the P eople's R epublic of C hina. In order to exactly evaluate genetic …

Pelikán africký (Pelecanus rufescens) a pelikán kadeřavý (P. crispus) jsou zástupci řádu
veslonozí (Pelecaniformes), u nichž dosud nebyly publikovány primery amplifikující …

Recent advances in high-throughput, genomic sequencing allow unprecedented insight into
the evolution of biodiversity. Chapter 1 of this thesis is a phylogenetic study of 1,145 …