title: Phylogenetic relationships of intraspecific forms of the house mouse Mus musculus: Analysis of variability of the control region (D-loop) of mitochondrial DNA.
abstract: Analysis of the control region of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) or D-loop of 96 house mice (Mus musculus) from Russia, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan has been used to reconstruct the phylogenetic relationships and phylogeographic patterns of intraspecific forms. New data on the phylogenetic structure of the house mouse are presented. Three phylogroups can be reliably distinguished in the eastern part of the M. musculus species range, the first one mainly comprising the haplotypes of mice from Transcaucasia (Armenia); the second one, the haplotypes of mice from Kazakhstan; and the third one, the haplotypes of mice from Siberia and some other regions. The morphological subspecies M. m. wagneri and M. m. gansuensis have proved to be genetically heterogeneous and did not form discrete phylogroups in the phylogenetic tree.
authors.affiliation: Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119071, Russia.
authors.forename: A N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Maltsev
authors.affiliation: Institute of Arid Zones, Southern Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Rostov-on-Don, 344006, Russia.
authors.forename: V V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Stakheev
authors.affiliation: Koltsov Institute of Developmental Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 117808, Russia.
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Bogdanov
authors.affiliation: Institute of Arid Zones, Southern Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Rostov-on-Don, 344006, Russia.
authors.forename: E S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Fomina
authors.affiliation: Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119071, Russia. evkotenkova@yandex.ru.
authors.forename: E V
authors.initials: EV
authors.lastname: Kotenkova
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial / Q000235:genetics*; D014644:Genetic Variation; D006239:Haplotypes; D006824:Hybridization, Genetic; D051379:Mice; D010802:Phylogeny; D058974:Phylogeography; D012426:Russia; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D012800:Siberia
chemical_list: D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial