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Two Pisidium species inhabit freshwater lakes of Novaya Zemlya Archipelago: the first molecular evidence

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The information regarding freshwater mollusks of water bodies of Novaya Zemlya Archipelago is extremely limited. In 2015, the study of the lakes of the Southern Island of Novaya Zemlya Archipelago was undertaken within the framework of the research expedition of the “Arctic Floating University”. In general, two bivalve species were found in the lakes, Pisidium cf. conventus (Clessin, 1877) and P. waldeni (Kuiper, 1975). It is a northernmost record for Pisidium in the Palearctic Region. The present study provides the first occurrence of P. waldeni on the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago. The results of molecular analyses show that P. cf. conventus from Svyatoe Lake clusters together with the clade Odhneripisidium Kuiper, 1962. Our data are in accordance with the tabula rasa hypothesis, which states that the contemporary freshwater invertebrate fauna of the Novaya Zemlya originates through recent immigration processes after the Last Glacial Maximum.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to acknowledge two anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions which substantially improved the manuscript. This study has been partially supported by the Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations (nos. 0410-2014-0028 and 0409-2016-0022), the Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation (no. 6.2343.2017), grants of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (nos. 15-04-05638 and 16-05-00854), grant from the President of Russia (no. МD-7660.2016.5), and the “Arctic Floating University” research expedition of Northern (Arctic) Federal University (2015 and 2016).

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  1. Russian Museum of the Biodiversity Hotspots, Federal Center for Integrated Arctic Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Severnaya Dvina Emb. 23, 163000, Arkhangelsk, Russian Federation

    Yulia Bespalaya, Ivan Bolotov, Olga Aksenova, Alexander Kondakov, Vitaly Spitsyn, Yaroslava Kogut & Svetlana Sokolova

  2. Northern (Arctic) Federal University, Severnaya Dvina Emb. 17, 163002, Arkhangelsk, Russian Federation

    Yulia Bespalaya, Ivan Bolotov, Olga Aksenova, Alexander Kondakov, Vitaly Spitsyn & Svetlana Sokolova

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Bespalaya, Y., Bolotov, I., Aksenova, O. et al. Two Pisidium species inhabit freshwater lakes of Novaya Zemlya Archipelago: the first molecular evidence. Polar Biol 40, 2119–2126 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-017-2119-y

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