The Demoiselle crane (Anthropoides virgo) population genetic structure in Russia
Journal: Vavilov Journal of Genetics and Breeding
Year: 2018

The Demoiselle crane ( Anthropoides virgo Linneaus, 1758) is a widespread crane species of Eurasia distributed in the steppe and semi-desert zones from southeast Ukraine eastward to Northern China. The Demoiselle crane uses two wintering grounds in Africa and India corresponding to the European and Asian breeding parts of the range subdivided into several spatially separated breeding flocks. The first estimates of the genetic diversity and differentiation have been obtained from five of them: 1)