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Phenetic Analysis of Aboriginal and Introduced Populations of Sable (Martes zibellina) in Russia

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Using standard and multivariate statistic methods, an epigenetic character—foramina in fossa condyloidei inferior(FFCI)—was studied in sable populations. This character was shown to be most frequent in southeastern populations of the species (Primorye and the Baikal region) while its distribution in the remaining part of the range was polyclinal. The expression of FFCI was directly associated with coat color and longitude, and inversely associated with skull size. This trend was broken by some western populations formed in the 1950s by introduction, which exhibited stable morphological differences with adjacent aboriginal sable populations. Most populations of the species exhibit differences in the manifestation of the studied characters. Frequency of the FFCI manifestation can be used as an additional population characteristic, an associative diagnostic character that shows high discriminating capability in detecting phenogenetic relationships of intraspecific groups.

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Monakhov, V.G. Phenetic Analysis of Aboriginal and Introduced Populations of Sable (Martes zibellina) in Russia. Russian Journal of Genetics 37, 1074–1081 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011921800598

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