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Effect of Ecogeographic Factors along Latitudinal–Longitudinal Gradient on the Red Blood System of the Caucasian Snow Vole (Chionomys gud), a Species Autochthonous to the Caucasus

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Parameters of hematopoietic tissue and peripheral blood in the Caucasian snow vole (Chionomys gud Satunin, 1909), a typical mountain species of small mammals, have been studied for the first time along a latitudinal–longitudinal (rather than altitudinal) gradient. It has been found that the blood of snow voles living at the same elevation (1800 m a.s.l.) in the maritime climate of the Western Caucasus and in the continental climate of the Central Caucasus has similar oxygen-carrying capacity, but this is provided by different mechanisms. The results of this study suggest that the natural conditions of the Western Caucasus are most optimal for the species.

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Russian Text © Z.Kh. Bottaeva, F.A. Tembotova, M.M. Emkuzheva, Z.A. Bersekova, A.Kh. Chapaev, 2019, published in Ekologiya, 2019, No. 1, pp. 30–39.

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Bottaeva, Z.K., Tembotova, F.A., Emkuzheva, M.M. et al. Effect of Ecogeographic Factors along Latitudinal–Longitudinal Gradient on the Red Blood System of the Caucasian Snow Vole (Chionomys gud), a Species Autochthonous to the Caucasus. Russ J Ecol 50, 34–42 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1067413619010016

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