Mitotypical peculiarities of the population of moose Alces alces of southeastern West Siberia

Population dynamics and range shifts of moose (Alces alces) during the Late Quaternary

“…Nemoikina et al. (2016) identified a third haplogroup in west Siberia, but we found no support for that (Figure 3, samples starting with KR). Moose diversity peaks in east Asia where haplotypes from all groups are found, supporting earlier proposals that this is the region of origin of all extant moose.…”

“…However, haplotypes of the east‐Asian/American lineage were found further to the west, up to the Ob River (Moskvitina, Nemoikina, Tyuten'kov, & Kholodova, 2011), while Nemoikina et al. (2016) suggest a third, western Siberian haplogroup. Similarly, with morphology, Lister (2005) found broad agreement with the east‐west divide, but a few skulls of intermediate and even ‘western’ type occur in parts of eastern Siberia.…”

“…The North American and some of the eastern Asian group also lack a 75 bp section of the mtDNA CR. At present, the geographical border between specimens expressing these differences in Asia is poorly defined (Hundertmark & Bowyer, 2004; Nemoikina, Kholodova, Tyutenkov, & Moskvitina, 2016; Niedziałkowska, 2017).…”

“…Kolesnikov and Kozlovskii (2014) indicated that antlers from western Siberia are as large as those further east, but they did not examine the taxonomically significant feature of beam branching that separates eastern and western types. Therefore, the location, width and history of the contact zone between the western and eastern lineages of moose in west Siberia is debated (Moskvitina et al., 2011; Nemoikina et al., 2016; Niedziałkowska, 2017). We sampled ancient specimens from the Ural region to test the boundaries of the contact zone.…”