Common hamster Cricetus cricetus (L., 1758) in the Silesian Voivodeship, South Poland

Abstract

Katarzyna S k o w r o ń s k a -O c h m a n n *, Joanna Z i o m e k ** and Agata B a n a s z e k *** In t r o d u c t i o n

Genetic variation and effective population size in an isolated population of the common hamster,Cricetus cricetus

“…In the analysis of microsatellite diversity in the Polish part of the common hamster range we showed that the Pannonian populations were isolated from one another (Banaszek et al 2011a). However, the recent, detailed inventarization in the Upper Silesia revealed the presence of some more local populations of the common hamster (Skowrońska et al 2011)…”