Epigenetic variation in the American mink, Neovison vison, from eastern Europe: A search for factors of polymorphism


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Abstract

A comparative analysis of epigenetic variation has been performed in nine European populations and population groups of the American mink. It has been shown that differentiation of samples in nonmetric characters is due mainly to endogenous processes that have occurred in introduced populations in the course of colonization of new territory by the invasive species. Environmental factors have played a secondary role, with the influence of the geographic (latitudinal) origin of a given sample being considerable and stronger than that of macroclimatic factors.

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N. P. Korablev

Velikie Luke State Agricultural Academy; Pskov State University

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Russian Federation, pr. Lenina 2, Velikie Luki, 182112; pl. Lenina 2, Pskov, 180000

M. P. Korablev

Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution; Central Forest State Biosphere Reserve

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Russian Federation, Leninskii pr. 33, Moscow, 119991; p/o Zapovednik, Nelidovskii raion, Tver oblast, 172513

P. N. Korablev

Central Forest State Biosphere Reserve

Email: cranlab@gmail.com
Russian Federation, p/o Zapovednik, Nelidovskii raion, Tver oblast, 172513

I. L. Tumanov

Western Branch, Zhitkov All-Russia Research Institute of Game Management and Fur Farming

Email: cranlab@gmail.com
Russian Federation, Pervaya liniya 38, St. Petersburg, 197183

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