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Phylogenetics and phylogeography of red deer mtDNA lineages during the last 50 000 years in Eurasia

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Doan, Karolina, Niedziałkowska, Magdalena, Stefaniak, Krzysztof, Sykut, Maciej, Jędrzejewska, Bogumiła, Ratajczak-Skrzatek, Urszula, Piotrowska, Natalia, Ridush, Bogdan, Zachos, Frank E, Popović, Danijela, Baca, Mateusz, Mackiewicz, Paweł, Kosintsev, Pavel, Makowiecki, Daniel, Charniauski, Maxim, Boeskorov, Gennady, Bondarev, Alexey Anatolievich, Danila, Gabriel, Kusak, Josip, Rannamäe, Eve, Saarma, Urmas, Arakelyan, Marine, Manaseryan, Ninna, Krasnodębski, Dariusz, Titov, Vadim, Hulva, Pavel, Bălășescu, Adrian, Trantalidou, Katerina, Dimitrijević, Vesna, Shpansky, Andrey, Kovalchuk, Oleksandr, Klementiev, Alexey M, Foronova, Irina, Malikov, Dmitriy G, Juras, Anna, Nikolskiy, Pavel, Grigoriev, Semyon Egorovich, Cheprasov, Maksim Yurievich, Novgorodov, Gavril Petrovich, Sorokin, Alexandr Dmitrievich, Wilczyński, Jarosław, Protopopov, Albert Vasilievich, Lipecki, Grzegorz, Stanković, Ana (2022): Phylogenetics and phylogeography of red deer mtDNA lineages during the last 50 000 years in Eurasia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 194 (2): 431-456, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab025, URL: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/194/2/431/6310996

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