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Highly divergent lineage of narrow-headed vole from the Late Pleistocene Europe.
Scientific reports - 28 Nov 2019
Baca Mateusz, Popović Danijela, Lemanik Anna, Baca Katarzyna, Horáček Ivan, Nadachowski Adam
Abstract excerpt
During the Late Pleistocene, narrow-headed voles (Lasiopodomys gregalis) inhabited Eurasia's vast territories, frequently becoming the dominant small mammal species among steppe-tundra communities. We investigated the relationship between this species' European and Asiatic populations by sequencing the mtDNA genomes of two extant specimens from Russia and 10 individuals from five Central European sites, dated to...
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