o:1978 Pan-European phylogeography of the European roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) en To provide the most comprehensive picture of species phylogeny and phylogeography of European roe deer (Capreolus capreolus), we analyzed mtDNA control region (610 bp) of 1469 samples of roe deer from Central and Eastern Europe and included into the analyses additional 1541 mtDNA sequences from GenBank from other regions of the continent. We detected two mtDNA lineages of the species: European and Siberian (an introgression of C. pygargus mtDNA into C. capreolus). The Siberian lineage was most frequent in the eastern part of the continent and declined toward Central Europe. The European lineage contained three clades (Central, Eastern, and Western) composed of several haplogroups, many of which were separated in space. The Western clade appeared to have a discontinuous range from Portugal to Russia. Most of the haplogroups in the Central and the Eastern clades were under expansion during the Weichselian glacial period before the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), while the expansion time of the Western clade overlapped with the Eemian interglacial. The high genetic diversity of extant roe deer is the result of their survival during the LGM probably in a large, contiguous range spanning from the Iberian Peninsula to the Caucasus Mts and in two northern refugia. Mitochondrial-Dna; Genetic-Structure; Common Vole; Postglacial Colonization; Population-Growth; Eastern-Europe; Diversity; Pygargus; L.; Differentiation 1552099 10.1002/ece3.8931 2023-08-11T08:39:55.022Z 44 yes 46 Kamila Plis Polish Academy of Sciences 0000-0002-7462-5324 Magdalena Niedziałkowska Polish Academy of Sciences person 0000-0002-7746-4116 Tomasz Borowik Polish Academy of Sciences person 0000-0003-0321-8200 Johannes Lang Justus-Liebig-University person 0000-0002-7387-795X Mike Heddergott Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle Luxembourg person 0000-0003-4536-5508 Juha Tiainen University of Helsinki / Natural Resources Institute Finland person 0000-0001-5855-2594 Aleksey Bunevich State National Park Belovezhskaya Pushcha person Nikica Šprem University of Zagreb person 0000-0002-3475-6653 Ladislav Paule Technical University in Zvolen person 0000-0002-5097-7472 Aleksey Danilkin Russian Academy of Sciences person Marina Kholodova Russian Academy of Sciences person Elena Zvychaynaya Russian Academy of Sciences person Nadezhda Kashinina Russian Academy of Sciences person Boštjan Pokorny Slovenian Forestry Institute person 0000-0002-2981-5516 Katarina Flajšman Slovenian Forestry Institute person 0000-0002-5583-653X Algimantas Paulauskas Vytautas Magnus University person 0000-0002-6823-3754 Mihajla Djan University of Novi Sad person 0000-0002-2427-0676 Zoran Ristić University of Novi Sad person Luboš Novák Mendel University person Szilvia Kusza University of Debrecen person 0000-0002-5441-5303 Christine Miller Bureau of Wildlife Biology Bavaria person Dimitris Tsaparis Hellenic Centre for Marine Research person 0000-0001-9626-5553 Stoyan Stoyanov University of Forestry person 0000-0003-2775-1800 Maryna Shkvyria Kyiv Zoological Park of National Importance person Franz Suchentrunk University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna person 0000-0001-9862-5591 Miroslav Kutal Mendel University person Vukan Lavadinović University of Belgrade person Dragana Šnjegota University of Banja Luka person 0000-0003-2125-4635 Ana-Maria Krapal National Museum of Natural History Bucharest person Gabriel Dănilă Ştefan cel Mare University of Suceava person Rauno Veeroja Estonian Environment Agency person Elżbieta Dulko University of Virginia / University of Warsaw person Bogumiła Jędrzejewska Polish Academy of Sciences person 0000-0002-9652-0953 application/pdf 1307257 https://phaidra.vetmeduni.ac.at/o:1978 no yes 16 70 1552253 Ecology and Evolution 14 12 5 Wiley 2022