Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Expansion of the Sable (Martes zibellina L.) from the North of the Central Siberian Plateau into Tundra Ecosystems

  • Published:
Russian Journal of Genetics Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Using 16 STR markers, the genetic structure of sable populations in the north of the Central Siberian Plateau and the right bank of the Lena River was studied. They were from typical taiga habitats and atypical tundra habitats directly adjacent to the coast of the Arctic Ocean. At present, the species is in the stage of settlement; in recent years, the sable has penetrated deeply into the tundra zone. Since 2000, an increase in the number of sable and an increase in migratory activity have been recorded in this region; in connection with this, the level of differentiation between the “historical” sable populations has been studied. Data on the geographical distribution of sable genotypes show that groups related to the Olenek sable population inhabit the tundra zone. Evidence of the formation of a sable subpopulation structure in a new habitat has been revealed. Another conclusion: the “historical” populations of the Central Siberian Plateau did not undergo a restructuring of the genetic structure under the influence of migration flows and are significantly genetically differentiated. The appearance of sables in the tundra indicates the active development of new territories that were not previously typical of the species.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1.
Fig. 2.
Fig. 3.
Fig. 4.
Fig. 5.
Fig. 6.
Fig. 7.

Similar content being viewed by others

REFERENCES

  1. Timofeev, V.V. and Nadeev, V.N., Sobol’ (The Sable), Moscow: Zagotizdat, 1955.

  2. Monakhov, G.I. and Bakeev, N.N., Sobol’ (The Sable), Moscow: Lesnaya Promyshlenost’, 1981, 2nd ed.

  3. Zyryanov, A.N., Sobol’ Srednei Sibiri (The Sable of Central Siberia), Smirnov, M.N., Ed., Krasnoyarsk: Sibirskie Promysly, 2009.

  4. Pavlov, M.P., Korsakova, I.B., Timofeev, V.V., and Safonov, V.G., Akklimatizatsiya okhotnich’e-promyslovykh zverei i ptits v SSSR (Acclimatisation of Commercial Game Mammals and Birds in the Soviet Union), Kirov: Volgo-Vyatskoe Knizhnoe Izd., 1973.

  5. Romanov, A.A., Pushnye zveri Lensko-Khatangskogo kraya i ikh promysel (Fur Animals of Lena—Khatanga Krai and Their Trade), issue 17 of Trudy Nauchno-Issledovatel’skogo instituta polyarnogo zemledeliya, zhivotnovodstva i promyslovogo khozyaistva (Proceedings of the Research Institute of Polar Agriculture, Livestock, and Animal Trade), Ser. Promyslovoe khozyaistvo (Animal Trade), Leningrad: Izd. Glavsermorputi, 1941.

  6. Zakharov, E.S. and Safronov, V.M., Ecology of sable of North-Western Yakutian native population, Russ. J. Theriol., 2017, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 74—85. https://doi.org/10.15298/rusjtheriol.16.1.07

    Article  Google Scholar 

  7. Tavrovskii, V.A., Sable in Northwestern Yakutia and ways to restore its trade, in Vosstanovlenie promyslovykh zapasov sobolya v Yakutii (Restoration of Commercial Stocks of Sable in Yakutia), Trudy Insituta Biologii Yakutskogo filiala Sibirskogo Otdeleniya Akademii Nauk SSSR (Proceedings of the Institute for Biology, Yakut Filial Branch, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences), Akad. Nauk SSSR, 1958, no. 4, pp. 50—142.

  8. Tavrovskii, V.A. and Shitaev, I.S., Materials on the nutrition of sable in Northwestern Yakutia, Zool. Zh., 1957, vol. XXI, no. 4, pp. 608—616.

    Google Scholar 

  9. Tavrovskii, V.A., On the past distribution and abundance of sable in Yakutia, in Issledovaniya po promyslovoy zoologii (Research on Commercial Zoology), Trudy Insituta Biologii Yakutskogo filiala Sibirskogo Otdeleniya Akademii Nauk SSSR (Proceedings of the Institute of Biology, Yakut Filial Branch, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences), 1959, no. 6, pp. 47—75.

  10. Tavrovskii, V.A., Some issues of geographical variability of sable and the systematic position of sables in Yakutia, in Issledovaniya po promyslovoy zoologii (Research on Commercial Zoology), Trudy Insituta Biologii Yakutskogo filiala Sibirskogo Otdeleniya Akademii Nauk SSSR (Proceedings of the Institute for Biology, Yakut Filial Branch, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences), 1959, no. 6, pp. 76—96.

  11. Tavrovskii, V.A., Egorov, O.V., Krivasheev, V.G., et al., Mlekopitayushchie Yakutii (Mammals of Yakutia), Moskva: Nauka, 1971.

  12. Monakhov, V.G., Dinamika razmernoi i feneticheskoi struktury sobolya v areale (Dynamics of Size and Phenetic Structure of Sable in Its Geographical Range), Yekaterinburg: Ural. Otd. Ross. Akad. Nauk, 2006.

  13. Zakharov, E.S., Safronov, V.M., and Pavlova, A.I., Winter diet of sable (Martes zibellina L.) in Yakutia, Dostizh. Nauki Tekhn. Agroprom. Komplexa, 2016, vol. 30, no. 11, pp. 82—87.

    Google Scholar 

  14. Safronov, V.M., Climate change and mammals of Yakutia, Biol. Bull. (Moscow), 2016, vol. 43, no. 9, pp. 1256–1270. https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062359016110121

  15. Zakharov, E.S. and Safronov, V.M., Ecology of sable (Martes zibelline L.) in western Yakutia, Vestn. Tomsk. Gos. Univ., Biol., 2012, vol. 1, no. 17, pp. 73—84.

    Google Scholar 

  16. Wereszczuk, A., Leblois, R., and Zalewski, A., Genetic diversity and structure related to expansion history and habitat isolation: stone marten populating rural-urban habitats, BMC Ecol., 2017, vol. 17. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12898-017-0156-6

  17. Baltensperger, A.P., Morton, J.M., and Huettmann, F., Expansion of American marten (Martes americana) distribution in response to climate and landscape change on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, J. Mammal., 2017, vol. 98, no. 3, pp. 703—714. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyx011

    Article  Google Scholar 

  18. Belyk, V.I., On the distribution of sable in Yakutia, Priroda, 1948, no. 6, pp. 64—65.

  19. Gryaznukhin, A.N., Results of sable reacclimatization in Yakutia, in Fauna i ekologiya nazemnykh pozvonochnykh taezhnoi Yakutii (Fauna and Ecology of Terrestrial Vertebrates in Taiga Yakutia), 1980, pp. 43—78.

    Google Scholar 

  20. Davis, C.S. and Strobeck, C., Isolation, variability, and cross-species amplification of polymorphic microsatellite loci in the family Mustelidae, Mol. Ecol., 1998, pp. 1776—1778. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-294x.1998.00515.x

  21. Fleming, M.A., Ostrander, E.A., and Cook, J.A., Microsatellite markers for American mink (Mustela vison) and ermine (Mustela erminea), Mol. Ecol., 1999, vol. 8, no. 8, pp. 1352–1355. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-294X.1999.00701_2.x

  22. Kashtanov, S.N., Svishcheva, G.R., Lazebny, O.E., et al., Influence of anthropogenic factors on the genetic variety of the sable (Martes zibellina L.), Mol Biol., 2015, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 397—402. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0026893315030097

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  23. Kashtanov, S.N., Stolpovsky, Y.A., Meshchersky, I.G., et al., Taxonomic status and genetic identification of Altai sable (Martes zibellina averini Bazhanov, 1943), Russ. J. Genet., 2018, vol. 54, no. 11, pp. 1342—1351. https://doi.org/10.1134/S1022795418110078

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  24. Basto, M.P., Rodrigues, M., Santos-Reis, M., et al., Isolation and characterization of 13 tetranucleotide microsatellite loci in the Stone marten (Martes foina), Conserv. Genet. Resour., 2010, vol. 2, pp. 317—319. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12686-010-9217-2

    Article  Google Scholar 

  25. Natali, C., Banchi, E., Ciofi, C., et al., Characterization of 13 polymorphic microsatellite loci in the European pine marten Martes martes, Conserv. Genet. Res., 2010, vol. 2, pp. 397—399. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12686-010-9282-6

    Article  Google Scholar 

  26. R Development Core Team, R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing, Vienna: R Foundation for Statistical Computing, 2014. http://www.R-project.org.

  27. Keenan, K., McGinnity, P., Cross, T.F., et al., DiveRsity: an R package for the estimation and exploration of population genetics parameters and their associated errors, Methods Ecol. Evol., 2013, vol. 4, no. 8, pp. 782—788. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12067

    Article  Google Scholar 

  28. Botstein, D., White, R.L., Skalnick, M.H., and Davies, R.W., Construction of a genetic linkage map in man using restriction fragment length polymorphism, Am. J. Hum. Genet., 1980, vol. 32, pp. 314—331.

    CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  29. Clark, L.V. and Jasieniuk, M., POLYSAT: an R package for polyploid microsatellite analysis, Mol. Ecol. Resour., 2011, vol. 11, pp. 562—566. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-0998.2011.02985.x

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  30. Adamack, A.T. and Gruber, B., PopGenReport: simplifying basic population genetic analyses in R, Methods Ecol. Evol., 2014, vol. 5, pp. 384—387. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12158

    Article  Google Scholar 

  31. Nei, M., Genetic distance between populations, Am. Nat., 1972, vol. 106, no. 949, pp. 283—292. https://doi.org/10.1086/282771

    Article  Google Scholar 

  32. Kamvar, Z.N., Tabima, J.F., and Gr̈unwald, N.J., Poppr: an R package for genetic analysis of populations with clonal, partially clonal, and/or sexual reproduction, Peer J., 2014, vol. 2. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.281

  33. Pritchard, J.K., Stephens, M., and Donnelly, P., Inference of population structure using multilocus genotype data, Genetics, 2000, vol. 155, no. 2, pp. 945—959. https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/155.2.945

    Article  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  34. Evanno, G., Regnaut, S., and Goudet, J., Detecting the number of clusters of individuals using the software STRUCTURE: a simulation study, Mol. Ecol., 2005, vol. 14, no. 8, pp. 2611—2620. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2005.02553.x

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  35. Earl, D. and von Holdt, B., STRUCTURE HARVESTER: a website and program for visualizing STRUCTURE output and implementing the Evanno method, Conserv. Genet. Resour., 2012, vol. 4, pp. 359—361. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12686-011-9548-7

    Article  Google Scholar 

  36. Kopelman, N.M., Mayzel, J., Jakobsson, M., et al., Clumpak: a program for identifying clustering modes and packaging population structure inferences across K, Mol. Ecol. Resour., 2015, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 1179–1191. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.12387

    Article  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  37. Genofond i genogeografiya narodonaseleniya (Gene Pool and Gene Geography of Population), vol. 2: Genogeograficheskii atlas naseleniya Rossii i sopredel’nykh stran (Gene Geographical Atlas of Population of Russia and Neighboring Countries), Rychkov, Yu.G., Ed., St. Petersburg: Nauka, 2003.

  38. Jost, L., GST and its relatives do not measure differentiation, Mol. Ecol., 2008, vol. 17, no. 18, pp. 4015—4026. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2008.03887.x

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  39. Jueterboc, A., Kraemer, P., Gerlach, G., et al., Package “DEMEtics,” Mol. Ecol., 2012, pp. 3845—3852.

  40. Alcala, N. and Rosenberg, N.A., GST’, Jost’s D, and FST are similarly constrained by allele frequencies: a mathematical, simulation, and empirical study, Mol. Ecol., 2019, vol. 28, no. 7. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15000

  41. Mikhel’, N.M., Promyslovye zveri Severo-Vostochnoi Yakutii (Game Animals of Northeastern Yakutia), Leningrad: Izd. Glavsevmorputi, 1938.

  42. Revin, Yu.V., Safronov, V.M., Vol’pert, Ya.L., et al., Ekologiya i dinamika chislennosti mlekopitayushchikh Predverkhoyan’ya (Ecology and Population Dynamics of Mammals in Cis-Verkhoyansk Region), Novosibirsk: Nauka, 1988.

  43. Chernikin, E.M., Ekologiya sobolya (Martes zibellina Lunneus, 1758) v Barguzinskom zapovednike (Ecology of Sable (Martes zibellina Lunneus, 1758) in the Barguzinskii Nature Reserve), Ulan-Ude: Buryat. Gos. Univ., 2006.

  44. Thompson, I.D. and Colgan, P.W., Numerical responses of martens to a food shortage in Northcentral Ontario, J. Wildl. Manage., 1987, vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 824—835. https://doi.org/10.2307/3801748

    Article  Google Scholar 

  45. Slough, B.G., Movements and habitat use by transplanted marten in the Yukon Territory, J. Wildl. Manage., 1989, vol. 53, no. 4, pp. 991—997. https://doi.org/10.2307/3809600

    Article  Google Scholar 

  46. Fecske, D.M., Jenks, J.A., and Smith, V.J., Field evaluation of a habitat-relation model for the American marten, Wildl. Soc. Bull., 2002, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 775—782.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991, Moscow, Russia

    S. N. Kashtanov, G. R. Svishcheva, S. Yu. Rychkov, P. A. Filimonov & A. A. Onokhov

  2. Institute of Biological Problems of Cryolithozone, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 677890, Yakutsk, Russia

    E. S. Zakharov

  3. United Directorate of Reserves of Taymyr, 663305, Norilsk, Russia

    O. A. Begletsov

  4. Federal Research Center Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 630090, Novosibirsk, Russia

    G. R. Svishcheva

  5. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119071, Moscow, Russia

    E. S. Levenkova, I. G. Meschersky & V. V. Rozhnov

Authors
  1. S. N. Kashtanov
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. E. S. Zakharov
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. O. A. Begletsov
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. G. R. Svishcheva
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. S. Yu. Rychkov
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  6. P. A. Filimonov
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  7. A. A. Onokhov
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  8. E. S. Levenkova
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  9. I. G. Meschersky
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  10. V. V. Rozhnov
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to S. N. Kashtanov.

Ethics declarations

Conflict of interest. The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

Statement on the welfare of animals. All applicable international, national, and/or institutional guidelines for animal care and use have been followed.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Kashtanov, S.N., Zakharov, E.S., Begletsov, O.A. et al. Expansion of the Sable (Martes zibellina L.) from the North of the Central Siberian Plateau into Tundra Ecosystems. Russ J Genet 58, 955–966 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1022795422080038

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Revised:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S1022795422080038

Keywords:

Search

Navigation