New Zealand Journal of Zoology abstracts
*Author for correspondence.
Z99053Received 24
November 1999; accepted 29 May 2000
Preliminary molecular analysis of Pelecanoides georgicus
(Procellariiformes: Pelecanoididae) on Whenua Hou (Codfish Island):
implications for its taxonomic status
ADRIAN M. PATERSON
Ecology and Entomology Group
Lincoln University
P.O. Box 84
Canterbury, New Zealand
email: Patersoa@lincoln.ac.nz
LISE J. WALLIS
GRAHAM P. WALLIS*
Department of Zoology
University of Otago
P.O. Box 56
Dunedin, New Zealand
email: graham.wallis@stonebow.otago.ac.nz
Abstract Using sequences from the central and 3 regions of
the mitchondrial small subunit (12S) ribosomal RNA gene for six procellariiform
species, this study confirms that the population of
Pelecanoides
georgicus on Whenua Hou (Codfish Island), New Zealand, is most closely
related to
P. georgicus from the southern Indian Ocean. The level of
variation between sequences for this conserved gene suggests that the isolated
Whenua Hou
P. georgicus population split off from populations in the
Indian Ocean several hundred thousand years ago. Although
P. georgicus
is globally numerous, the Whenua Hou population is endangered. As our
preliminary sequence data suggest that the Whenua Hou population may have
diverged from its parent population, it may deserve recognition in its own
right.
Keywords 12S rRNA; Pelecanoididae; Pelecanoides
georgicus; spectral analysis; Whenua Hou
New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 2000, Vol. 27: 425
0301-4223/00/2704-0425 $7.00/0 (c) The Royal Society of New
Zealand 2000
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