New record of Microtus mystacinus in eastern Kazakhstan: phylogeographical considerations

By

Holicová, Tereza
Sedláček, František
Macová, Anna
Vlček, Jakub
Robovský, Jan

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2018

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

781

Pages

67-80

Subjects

Kazakhstan , Microtus mystacinus

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.781.25359

 

Abstract

The Eastern European vole (Microtusmystacinus) is an arvicoline rodent distributed across northern and eastern Europe, the Balkans, Turkey, Armenia, NW and N Iran, Russia as far east as the Tobol River in W Siberia, and W and N Kazakhstan. We present a novel records from eastern Kazakhstan (the village of Dzhambul – 49°14'21.3'N, 86°18'29.9'E and the village of Sekisovka – 50°21'9.18'N, 82°35'46.5'E) based on mtDNA and we discuss implications of this findings on biogeography of eastern Kazakhstan populations. Marine Isotope Stage 11 is considered an important period for the diversification of the arvalis species group. In the context of our study, it is important to analyse genetically discontinuous Siberian populations, and the current distribution of Microtusmystacinus in new localities in eastern Kazakhstan.