Publications by authors named "Dragana Snjegota"
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- A genetic analysis of 1469 roe deer samples from Central and Eastern Europe, along with 1541 mtDNA sequences from GenBank, reveals two main lineages: European and Siberian, with the latter more common in Eastern Europe.
- *The European lineage is further divided into three clades—Central, Eastern, and Western—with distinct spatial distributions, particularly showing a fragmented range for the Western clade from Portugal to Russia.
- *Most haplogroups in the Central and Eastern clades expanded during the Weichselian glacial period, while the Western clade's expansion coincided with the warmer Eemian interglacial, highlighting the role of refugia in maintaining genetic diversity during the Last Glacial Maximum.
The Balkan Peninsula and the Dinaric Mountains possess extraordinary biodiversity and support one of the largest and most diverse wolf () populations in Europe. Results obtained with diverse genetic markers show west-east substructure, also seen in various other species, despite the absence of obvious barriers to movement. However, the spatial extent of the genetic clusters remains unresolved, and our aim was to combine fine-scale sampling with population and spatial genetic analyses to improve resolution of wolf genetic clusters.
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