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Miki Hirose
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Raccoon (Procyon lotor) is a globally introduced invasive carnivore. Although controlling feral raccoon populations is important to reduce serious threats to local ecosystems, raccoons are not under rigid population control in Europe and Japan. We examined the D-loop and nuclear microsatellite regions to identify spatially explicit and feasible management units for effective population control and further range expansion retardation. Through the identification of five mitochondrial DNA haplotypes and three nuclear genetic groups, we identified at least three independent introductions, range expansion, and subsequent genetic admixture in the Boso Peninsula. Admitting that the currently recognizable two genetic clusters can be treated as different management units, these management units will soon fuse to a single but large population to which the effective population control will no longer be applicable due to the absence of a genetic barrier between southern and northern Chiba Prefecture.
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Procyon lotor, D-loop, nuclear microsatellite, genetic barrier
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Editorial decision: Major revision
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Raccoon (Procyon lotor) is a globally introduced invasive carnivore. Although controlling feral raccoon populations is important to reduce serious threats to local ecosystems, raccoons are not under rigid population control in Europe and Japan. We examined the D-loop and nuclear microsatellite regions to identify spatially explicit and feasible management units for effective population control and further range expansion retardation. Through the identification of five mitochondrial DNA haplotypes and three nuclear genetic groups, we identified at least three independent introductions, range expansion, and subsequent genetic admixture in the Boso Peninsula. Admitting that the currently recognizable two genetic clusters can be treated as different management units, these management units will soon fuse to a single but large population to which the effective population control will no longer be applicable due to the absence of a genetic barrier between southern and northern Chiba Prefecture.
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