Genetic Diversity of the Field Vole Microtus agrestis (Arvicolinae, Rodentia) in the Central Part of Northern Eurasia according to the Cytochrome b Gene Data
Yalkovskaya L.E. Sibiryakov P.A. Krohaleva M.A. Markova E.A. Borodin A.V. Borisov S.A. Chibiryak M.V. Bobretsov A.V.
May 2024Pleiades Publishing
Russian Journal of Genetics
2024#60Issue 5612 - 625 pp.
Abstract: An analysis of the genetic diversity of the field vole was carried out with the inclusion of new data on the complete sequences of the cytochrome b gene from the least studied area of the range of the species—the central part of Northern Eurasia (20 localities of the East European Plain, the Urals, Western and Eastern Siberia). The obtained results are generally consistent with modern view on the phylogeography of the species, but indicate the previously not investigated genetic heterogeneity of the Eastern clade, which occupies the entire Asian part of the range of the species and its European part to Northern and Eastern Europe. A comparison of the results of analysis of genetic diversity with the age of paleontological findings carried out using the Urals as an example allows one to assume that climatic changes in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene could not have led to the complete extinction of the species in the region, but to the spatial redistribution of its populations and to the complete or partial replacement of some genetic groups by others.
Arvicolini , evolutionary history , genetic differentiation , mitochondrial genome , phylogeography , Ural region
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Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg, 620144, Russian Federation
Institute of Zoology of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty, 050060, Kazakhstan
Irkutsk Antiplague Research Institute of Siberia and Far East, Irkutsk, 664047, Russian Federation
Pechora-Ilych State Nature Reserve, Komi Republic, Yaksha, 169436, Russian Federation
Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology
Institute of Zoology of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Irkutsk Antiplague Research Institute of Siberia and Far East
Pechora-Ilych State Nature Reserve
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