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In Search of the Elusive North: Evolutionary History of the Arctic Fox (

Valentina A Panitsina, Semyon Yu Bodrov, Eugenia S Boulygina, Natalia V Slobodova, Pavel A Kosintsev, Natalia I Abramson

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Article in Biology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. A 75,000-y-old Scandinavian Arctic cave deposit reveals past faunal diversity and paleoenvironment.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Valentina A PanitsinaZoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 199034 Saint-Petersburg, Russia.ORCID 0009-0000-5749-4804
Semyon Yu BodrovZoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 199034 Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
Eugenia S BoulyginaNational Research Center "Kurchatov Institute", 123182 Moscow, Russia.
Natalia V SlobodovaFaculty of Biology and Biotechnology, HSE University, 101000 Moscow, Russia.
Pavel A KosintsevInstitute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 620144 Yekaterinburg, Russia.
Natalia I AbramsonZoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 199034 Saint-Petersburg, Russia.ORCID 0000-0001-7387-5455
Zoological Institute · RUInstitute of Plant and Animal Ecology · RUKurchatov Institute · RUNational Research University Higher School of Economics · RU

Funding

Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation 075-15-2021-1069Russian Foundation for Basic Research 20-29-01038State research theme 122031100282-2
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite the high level of interest, the population history of arctic foxes during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene remains poorly understood. Here we aimed to fill gaps in the demographic and colonization history of the arctic fox by analyzing new ancient DNA data from fossil specimens aged from 50 to 1 thousand years from the Northern and Polar Urals, historic DNA from museum specimens from the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago and the Taymyr Peninsula and supplementing these data by previously published sequences of recent and extinct arctic foxes from other regions. This dataset was used for reconstruction of a time-calibrated phylogeny and a temporal haplotype network covering four time intervals: Late Pleistocene (ranging from 30 to 13 thousand years bp), Holocene (ranging from 4 to 1 thousand years bp), historical (approximately 150 years), and modern. Our results revealed that Late Pleistocene specimens showed no genetic similarity to either modern or historical specimens, thus supporting the earlier hypothesis on local extinction rather than habitat tracking.

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ancient DNAarctic foxHolocenemitochondrial genomePleistocenethe Urals

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PMID38132343
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