%0 Conference Paper %F Poster %T Behavioural detection of hybrids in quail %+ Ethologie animale et humaine (EthoS) %+ Génétique Animale et Biologie Intégrative (GABI) %+ Office National de la Chasse et de la Faune Sauvage (ONCFS) %A Lumineau, Sophie %A Minvielle, Francis %A Chazara, Olympe %A Roux, Denis %A Boutin, Jean-Marie %A Rognon, Xavier, X %< avec comité de lecture %B Behavior 2009 - 31st International Ethological Conference %C Rennes, France %8 2009-08-19 %D 2009 %K sexual crow %K introgressive hybridisation %K European quail %K vocal communication %Z Life Sciences [q-bio]Poster communications %X Many cases of introgressive hybridization were observed among birds, in particular followingthe introduction of animals belonging to a taxon close to an indigenous species in theenvironment. This seems to be the case for the European quail, Coturnix coturnix coturnixwhose populations are artificially put in contact with the Japanese quail C. c. japonica, mainlyfurther to illegal releases of breeding animals for hunting. We investigated the presence ofhybrids in France during the sexual phase using an ethological trait: the sexual crow. TheEuropean quail utters two types of sexual crow while the Japanese quail utters only one type.Hybrids can utter parental types of mating calls as intermediate structures of mating calls. Inthe field, the mating call was studied from recordings carried out. Out of the 28 recordedbirds, 5 individuals presented differences compared to the crow awaited from the commonquail. This analysis could let suppose the presence of males, potentially hybrid and seeking toreproduce, within the natural populations. Our study confirms that both quail taxa, very closegenetically, can hybridize in nature. This introgression is known as having morphological andbehavioral consequences, in particular with the loss of the migratory behavior. It confirms theimportance of the fight against the Japanese or hybrid quail releases in order to preserve thegenetic integrity of the European quail. %G English %L hal-01354813 %U https://univ-rennes.hal.science/hal-01354813 %~ AGROPARISTECH %~ UNIV-RENNES1 %~ CNRS %~ INRA %~ ETHOS %~ ETHOS-ICDC %~ COMUE-NORMANDIE %~ UR1-UFR-SVE %~ UR1-HAL %~ UR1-SDV %~ ETHOS-DEEP %~ AGREENIUM %~ TEST-UNIV-RENNES %~ TEST-UR-CSS %~ UNIV-RENNES %~ UNICAEN %~ INRAE %~ GENETIQUE_ANIMALE %~ UR1-BIO-SA %~ GABI