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[New data on the phylogeography and genetic diversity of the brown bear Ursus arctos Linnaeus, 1758 of northeastern Eurasia (mtDNA control region polymorphism analysis)].
Izvestiia Akademii nauk. Seriia biologicheskaia - 1 Jan 2000
Salomashkina V V, Kholodova M V, Tiuten'kov O Iu, Moskvitina N S, Erokhin N G
Abstract excerpt
An analysis of polymorphism of the fragment of the control region of mitochondrial DNA of 53 tissue samples of the brown bear Ursus arctos from several regions of the eastern part of Russia was carried out. It was found that most of the described haplotypes belong to cluster 3a, the most common in Eurasia, and do not form regionally specific haplogroups. However, among the bears from Western and Eastern Siberia,...
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