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Introgression of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA markers of Mus musculus musculus to aboriginal populations of wild mice from Central Asia (M. m. wagneri) and South Siberia (M. m. gansuensis)

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Variability of the nucleotide sequences of the second intron of the b1-chain of hemoglobin (Hbb-b1) and complete control region of mitochondrial DNA (D-loop) was studied in aboriginal and synanthropic populations of M. m. wagneri from Central Asia and M. m. gansuensis from South Siberia. A difference in the frequency of the Hbbw1 hemoglobin variant for natural and urban populations of mice was shown. All mice from natural habitats of studied areas have musculus type of mtDNA. Apparently, the substitution of taxon-specific mitochondrial haplotypes of wagneri, and gansuensis might occur due to the absorbing hybridization with nominate subspecies musculus, which is consistent with the results on nuclear DNA (Hbb-b1 gene) obtained in this work. Two differentiated haplogroups among aboriginal subspecies wagneri (d = 0.01), one of which included house mice from Turkmenistan, were discovered for the first time. This may indicate mtDNA introgression from synanthropic forms of Turkmenistan into natural populations of Kazakhstan mice. The type of mtDNA typical for the castaneus subspecies was detected in two individuals from the natural habitat of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan; it had not been encountered in Central Asia before. It has been suggested that the gene flow of nuclear and mitochondrial genomes in microevolution processes in M. musculus is directed from the synanthropic forms towards wild populations.

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Original Russian Text © L.N. Spiridonova, 2014, published in Molekulyarnaya Biologiya, 2014, Vol. 48, No. 1, pp. 89–98.

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Spiridonova, L.N. Introgression of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA markers of Mus musculus musculus to aboriginal populations of wild mice from Central Asia (M. m. wagneri) and South Siberia (M. m. gansuensis). Mol Biol 48, 75–83 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0026893314010142

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