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The Identity of Gray Voles (Cricetidae, Rodentia) from Bolshoi Shantar Island, Sea of Okhotsk, with Gromov’s Vole (Alexandromys gromovi Vorontsov et al. 1988)

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The identification of gray voles from Bolshoi Shantar Island with Gromov’s vole from the mainland is confirmed using molecular data. The increased diversity of East Asian voles in the “Shantar corner” of the Sea of Okhotsk might be accounted for by counter range expansions of the “southern” and “northern” vole forms in different periods of the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. Their modern marginal populations in the territories studied can therefore be regarded as being relict in character.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors are grateful to the authorities of Zapovednoe Priamurye (Khabarovsk, Russia) for the kind permission to collect biological material from Bolshoi Shantar Island.

This work was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project nos. 15-04-02668а and 15-04-03871.

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  1. Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 685000, Magadan, Russia

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  2. Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 690022, Vladivostok, Russia

    I. N. Sheremetyeva

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Dokuchaev, N.E., Sheremetyeva, I.N. The Identity of Gray Voles (Cricetidae, Rodentia) from Bolshoi Shantar Island, Sea of Okhotsk, with Gromov’s Vole (Alexandromys gromovi Vorontsov et al. 1988). Biol Bull Russ Acad Sci 45, 783–787 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062359018070051

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