Abstract
Analysis of MtDNA cytochrome b gene (1140 bp) polymorphism of 106 samples red deer (Cervus elaphus) from different regions of Eurasia was performed; the phylogenetic relationships of groups throughout the entire inhibiting area (including North America) were reconstructed. Totally 75 haplotypes were detected, 33 of which were found in the European and 42 in the Asian part of the area. There were no identical haplotypes for these two parts of the area found. The close relatedness between Siberian red deer (C. e. sibirica) and North American wapiti (C. e. canadensis) was confirmed. Red deer inhibiting Yakutia were close to the Siberian red deer from Altai and Tuva, whereas red deer inhibiting Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk regions formed a separate clade. Overall, the reconstructed phylogeographic pattern of the species was significantly different from the subspecies differentiation based on morphological traits.
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Original Russian Text © M.V. Kuznetsova, A.A. Danilkin, M.V. Kholodova, 2012, published in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk, Seriya Biologicheskaya, 2012, No. 4, pp. 391–398.
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Kuznetsova, M.V., Danilkin, A.A. & Kholodova, M.V. Phylogeography of red deer (Cervus elaphus): Analysis of MtDNA cytochrome b polymorphism. Biol Bull Russ Acad Sci 39, 323–330 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062359012040048
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