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Morpho-Genetic Features of the Siberian Weasel (Mustela sibirica Pall.) on the Northeastern Edge of Its Areal (Middle Lena Basin, Yakutia)

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The sex and age differences of the Siberian weasel by morphological characteristics were considered; the value of sexual dimorphism was estimated by the main dimensional characteristics. A high haplotypic diversity and a reduced level of nucleotide diversity of the Siberian weasel in Yakutia were revealed. The similarity of Siberian weasels from Yakutia and western Siberia in the complex of morpho-genetic features and their differences from the Far Eastern subspecies, including the variability of the fragment of the cytochrome b mtDNA gene, were established. A median network of Siberian weasel haplotypes characterizing the phylogenetic relationships between populations was built. The possible ways and sequence of spread of the Siberian weasel in northern Asia were shown.

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This study was carried out within the framework of the design part of a State Assignment in the field of scientific activity of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation on the topic FSRG-2020-0019 “Bio- and Chemodiversity of Ecosystems, Evolution and Genetic Features of Bioindicators in Eastern Siberia and Working out Technologies for the Development of Renewable Plant Resources,” 2020–2022, and “Structure and Dynamics of Animal Populations and Communities in the Cold Region of Northeastern Russia in the Current Conditions of Global Climate Change and Anthropogenic Transformation of Northern Ecosystems: Factors, Mechanisms, Adaptations, Conservation” (state registration no. AAAA-A17-117020110058-4).

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  1. Institute for Biological Problems of the Cryolithozone, Russian Academy of Sciences, 677980, Yakutsk, Russia

    E. S. Zakharov & V. M. Safronov

  2. Ammosov Institute of Natural Sciences, Northeastern Federal University in Yakutsk, 677000, Yakutsk, Russia

    E. S. Zakharov, N. N. Zakharova & L. A. Pestryakova

  3. Arctic State Agrotechnological University, 677007, Yakutsk, Russia

    L. P. Koryakina

  4. Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, 14473, Potsdam, Germany

    S. Kruse

  5. Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 630091, Novosibirsk, Russia

    N. A. Bochkarev

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Zakharov, E.S., Safronov, V.M., Zakharova, N.N. et al. Morpho-Genetic Features of the Siberian Weasel (Mustela sibirica Pall.) on the Northeastern Edge of Its Areal (Middle Lena Basin, Yakutia). Biol Bull Russ Acad Sci 49, 656–665 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062359022060152

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