PHYLOGEOGRAPHY APPLIED TO THE CONSERVATION OF WILD FAUNA: REVIEW AND RESULTS

Abstract

With the objective of analyzing the contributions made by applied phylogeography to the conservation of wild fauna, its conceptual bases, principles and objectives are described through the review of various phylogeographic studies on deer, jaguars, monkeys, bats, crocodiles and insects, showing the most important results in terms of haplotypic and nucleotide diversity, genetic structure, and genealogical relationships. As a result of applying this tool, strategies for conservation are exposed, and the protocol implemented in the phylogeographic study of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) is defined, to respond to the definition of subspecies and to contribute information for their conservation, management and exploitation.