Species Composition, Distribution, and Environmental Ecology of Voles (Mammalia, Cricetidae, Microtus) Found in the Northwest Caucasus
- Autores: Balakirev A.1, Mironova T.1, Khlyap L.1, Vasilenko L.2, Okulova N.1
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Afiliações:
- Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences
- Sochi Antiplague Department, Black Sea Antiplague Station
- Edição: Volume 45, Nº 10 (2018)
- Páginas: 1117-1123
- Seção: Article
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/1062-3590/article/view/182924
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062359018100035
- ID: 182924
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Resumo
Molecular genetic typing of voles from the vicinity of the Pslukh cordon (south of the Caucasian state reserve), Krasnaya Polyana, and from the Utrish reserve (the Abrau peninsula) has been carried out. Based on the nucleotide sequence of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene, voles from Krasnaya Polyana and the Psulkh cordon should be attributed to Asia Minor voles (Chionomys roberti), and the animals from Utrish, to the Eastern European voles (Microtus rossiaemeridionalis). The Asia Minor voles belong to the North Caucasian phylogenetic branch of the species. The analysis of body measurements of voles from Krasnaya Polyana and Lazarevskii region (without molecular examination) showed that these animals also most likely belong to the Asia Minor voles (not to Gudaurskii, as was mistakenly considered earlier). Some information on the ecology of the Asia Minor voles in the region is given.
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A. Balakirev
Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences
Autor responsável pela correspondência
Email: natmichok@mail.ru
Rússia, Moscow, 117071
T. Mironova
Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences
Email: vasilenko_mila@mail.ru
Rússia, Moscow, 117071
L. Khlyap
Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences
Email: vasilenko_mila@mail.ru
Rússia, Moscow, 117071
L. Vasilenko
Sochi Antiplague Department, Black Sea Antiplague Station
Autor responsável pela correspondência
Email: vasilenko_mila@mail.ru
Rússia, Sochi, 354000
N. Okulova
Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences
Email: vasilenko_mila@mail.ru
Rússia, Moscow, 117071