“…per site) from the Kursk (sites Petropavlovka, Bogatyrevo, Panino), Tambov (Novospasskoe, Khobotovo, Ranino) and Penza (Krutec) regions in Russia (51.5367°–53.0925°N, 36.0906°–44.5840°E, 140–230 m a.s.l., Fig. 1; for a detailed description of the sites, see in
Mikhailenko and Polumordvinov 2015), between June 30 th and August 3 rd 2016. Extraction of genomic DNA from muscle tissue and amplification of a fragment of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (
COI ) gene from each sampled individual followed the protocol described in
Kaňuch et al (2014).…”