Effect of Ecogeographic Factors along Latitudinal–Longitudinal Gradient on the Red Blood System of the Caucasian Snow Vole (Chionomys gud), a Species Autochthonous to the Caucasus

Differentiating ability of haematological indicators: comparative blood test of sympatric rodent species of the subfamily Arvicolinae (Clethrionomys glareolus, Clethrionomys rutilus, and Craseomys rufocanus)

“…Experimental data and theoretical concepts (Morrison and Tietz 1957;Morrison 1964;Kovalchuk and Tsvirenko 1997;Kizhina et al 2020) indicate that as a result of a historically long process of differentiation of species in each region of the range, a phenotype is formed; it is closely related to the original ecological and climatic characteristics of the habitat. Therefore, there is a connection between the adaptive capacity of blood and geographical characteristics (Kovalchuk and Yastrebov 2003;Bottaeva et al 2019), seasonal variability (Wiger 1979;Wołk 1981;Tarakhtiy et al 2009;Kusumoto 2015), population dynamics (Lazutkin et al 2016), technogenic pollution (Topashka-Ancheva et al 2003;Tarakhtii and Mukhacheva 2011;Tête et al 2015;Orekhova 2018), hypoxia (due to burrowing, elevation, or diving hypoxia), and temperature (Bolshakov et al 1989;Frase 2002;Thomas and Ono 2015;Bottaeva et al 2019).…”