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Comparison of Ancient Haplotypes with Modern Island Reed Vole Populations

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Ancient (Medvezhyi Klyk Cave, Primorsky krai, Russia) and modern (island and coastal populations of Peter the Great Bay) mtDNA haplotypes of the reed vole were compared. Both ancient and modern vole haplotypes were divided into two groups. The first group included three ancient haplotypes dated >30 000 years BP and modern vole haplotypes from the islands of the Rimsky-Korsakov Archipelago. The second group involved ancient haplotypes dated 2000–5000 years BP and modern vole haplotypes of young island populations and mainland populations. Two widely distributed haplotypes H1 and H7 were found in the second group, the latter identical to one of the ancient haplotypes. The voles of Matveyev and Bolshoy Pelis islands retained the most ancient haplotypes. The main haplogroup changed on the coastal territory after the isolation of islands of the Rimsky-Korsakov Archipelago.

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I am grateful to the staff of the Far Eastern Marine Reserve for the assistance provided in collecting the material.

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This study was partially supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project no. 15-04-03871) and the program “Priority Scientific Research for the Complex Development of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences” no. 18-4-031.

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Sheremetyeva, I.N. Comparison of Ancient Haplotypes with Modern Island Reed Vole Populations. Russ J Genet 56, 874–879 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1022795420070145

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