Wildlife genetics and disease: allozyme evolution in the wild boar (<it>Sus scrofa</it>) caused by a swine fever epidemy

Abstract

Abstract Enzyme polymorphism at 42 loci was compared before and after a major epidemy of swine fever in wild boars from northern Vosges (France). No change was observed in the 38 monomorphic loci, but allele frequencies at the phosphoglucomutase locus PGM-2* changed significantly. Possible causes for this observation are discussed, and it appears that PGM-2 locus could be a genetic marker of resistance to this viral disease.

Keywords

• population genetics
• wild boar
• Sus scrofa
• hog cholera
• natural selection