caa a22 4500 445857609 CHVBK 20180317145433.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10592-011-0192-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10592-011-0192-2 Feeding diets of the Korean water deer ( Hydropotes inermis argyropus ) based on a 202bp rbc L sequence analysis [Elektronische Daten] [Baek Kim, Nam Lee, Sang Lee] The water deer (Hydropotes inermis) is one of the rare small ruminants in the world. There are two distinct subspecies in Far East Asia: one (H. i. inermis) lives in China, and the other (H. i. argyropus) lives in Korea. Unlike the Chinese subspecies, the diet of the Korean subspecies in the wild has rarely been studied. Here, we analyzed the diets of the Korean water deer by using 202bp rbcL sequences of plants found in fecal samples. Both similarity (%) and phylogeny (NJ tree) of the sequences were considered for the sequence assignment. These methods successfully assigned each sequence to only one family of one order without exception. We found that the Korean water deer fed on a total of 18 orders and 24 families of plants in the summer season. It fed mainly on Asteraceae family (28.4%) followed by Fagaceae (15.9%) and Polygonaceae (11.5%). There was a significant difference in diet composition between lowland area and mountainous area deer (P<0.001). The Korean water deer on Daebu Island are presumably browsers feeding mainly on forbs or woody plants. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2011 Korean water deer nationallicence Feeding diet nationallicence rbc L nationallicence Similarity nationallicence Phylogeny nationallicence Browser nationallicence Kim Baek Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Ewha Womans University, 120-750, Seoul, Korea aut Lee Nam Department of Life Science, Ewha Womans University, 120-750, Seoul, Korea aut Lee Sang Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Ewha Womans University, 120-750, Seoul, Korea aut Conservation Genetics Springer Netherlands 12/3(2011-06-01), 851-856 1566-0621 12:3<851 2011 12 10592 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-011-0192-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 brief-communication jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-011-0192-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kim Baek Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Ewha Womans University, 120-750, Seoul, Korea aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lee Nam Department of Life Science, Ewha Womans University, 120-750, Seoul, Korea aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lee Sang Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Ewha Womans University, 120-750, Seoul, Korea aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Conservation Genetics Springer Netherlands 12/3(2011-06-01), 851-856 1566-0621 12:3<851 2011 12 10592 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer