Retrospective Evaluation and Modern State of Elk (Alces alces L.) Population in West Siberia: Ecological and Molecular-Genetic Aspects
N. S. Moskvitina1, O. V. Nemoikina1, O. Y. Tyuten'kov1, M. V. Kholodova2
1 Tomsk State University
2 A. N. Severtsov Institute of the Problems of Ecology and Evolution RAS
mns_k@mail/ru
Keywords: elk, West Siberia, number, phylogeny, habitat
Pages: 593-598
Abstract
The dynamics of habitat and number of elk in West Siberia is described on the basis of analysis of perennial data. For the south-eastern region of the West Siberian part of the habitat, on the basis of investigation of the structure of hypervariable domain of the D-loop of mtDNA, the joint habitation of alk with haplotypes of both European (A. a. alces L.) and East-Siberian (A. a. pfizenmayeri Zukowski) subspecies was demonstrated. The high nucleotide () and haplotypic (H) diversity substantially exceeding similar indices for elk in the European part of Russia and the Urals was demonstrated.
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