Y CHROMOSOME HAPLOGROUP R1a1a7 (М458) OF MODERN BELARUSIANS AND MIGRATIONS OF SLAV’S PREDECESSORS ON BELARUS TERRITORY

A case study of the Neolithic comb ceramic site Pezmog 4 of the Kama culture presents a situation when results of radiocarbon dating change long-existing concepts concerning the development of archaeological events. Until the early 2000s, the chronology of the Kama culture, distributed mainly in the Kama and Vychegda River basins, has been based on comparative-typological analysis. Estimates of the age of this culture changed from the 3rd millennium BC in the 1950s to the 1st half of the 4th millennium BC by the 1990s. Research concerning the Pezmog 4 site in the central Vychegda River basin in 1999–2002 has abruptly changed this chronological understanding. The data obtained put the age of the early stage of Kama culture within the time range 5750–5620 cal BC and allowed us to propose the existence of another way of early pottery distribution in the forest zone of eastern Europe at the beginning of the 6th millennium BC. This innovation probably penetrated from the trans-Ural region.

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Forensic application of Y-chromosomal STR analysis in Lithuanian population

Biologija ◽

10.6001/biologija.v61i2.3140 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 61 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Giedrė Ruzgaitė ◽

Marija Čaplinskienė ◽

Rima Baranovienė ◽

Jūratė Jankauskienė ◽

Jolanta Kukienė ◽

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Keyword(s):

Y Chromosome ◽

Gene Pool ◽

Haplotype Diversity ◽

Haplotype Frequency ◽

Reference Database ◽

Match Probability ◽

Str Analysis ◽

Str Markers ◽

Forensic Casework ◽

Chromosome Gene

This paper presents a comprehensive Y-chromosomal STR haplotype analysis in the Lithuanian population in order to evaluate Lithuanians’ Y chromosome diversity, to infer genetic relations between Lithuanian and other European neighbouring populations and to introduce population reference data for generation of reliable Y-STR haplotype frequency estimates to be used in the quantitative assessment of Y-STR haplotype match in the forensic casework. Data were collected from the peripheral blood samples of 194 unrelated males throughout various regions of Lithuania. The amplification of 17 Y-STRs was carried out in one multiplex PCR using an AmpFlSTR® Yfiler<sup>TM</sup> PCR Amplication Kit according to the supplier’s protocol. The results indicated that the Y-chromosomal haplotype diversity in the Lithuanian population rises as the number of the analyzed Y-STRs is increased. However, all additional Y-STR loci are not hypervariable and only their whole makes a large diversity of Y-STR haplotypes in Lithuanian males. The analysis of molecular variance revealed low but significant interpopulation differences except the pair of Lithuanian and Latvian populations. The phylogenetic analysis showed that the clustered Y chromosome gene pool of Lithuanians and Latvians has a closer phylogenetic relation to Russian and Estonian populations and is less genetically related to other neighbouring populations of Belarus and Poland. Yet Y-STRs alleles and haplotypes differentiate effectively inside the Lithuanian population and between Lithuanians and its geographical neighbours excluding the Latvian population. Comparison of the Y-STR data suggests that Lithuanian and Latvian populations are closely related not only by geography and language but also by the Y chromosome gene pool represented by forensic Y-STR markers. Consequently, more forensic Y-STR markers should be included in the Y-STR haplotype in order to achieve a resolution between the Y chromosomes of Lithuanian and Latvian males. Lithuanian Y-STR haplotype data were submitted to the 34th release of the Y-STR Haplotype Reference Database 3.0 for match probability calculations in the forensic casework.

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Similarities and distinctions in Y chromosome gene pool of Western Slavs

American Journal of Physical Anthropology ◽

10.1002/ajpa.21253 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 142 (4) ◽

pp. 540-548 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Marcin Woźniak ◽

Boris Malyarchuk ◽

Miroslava Derenko ◽

Tomas Vanecek ◽

Jan Lazur ◽

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Keyword(s):

Y Chromosome ◽

Gene Pool ◽

Chromosome Gene

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Another Way of Early Pottery Distribution in Eastern Europe? Case Study of the Pezmog 4 Site, European Far Northeast

Radiocarbon ◽

10.1017/s0033822200049778 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 56 (02) ◽

pp. 733-741

Author(s):

Victor N Karmanov ◽

Natalia E Zaretskaya ◽

Alexander V Volokitin

Keyword(s):

Eastern Europe ◽

River Basin ◽

Radiocarbon Dating ◽

Early Stage ◽

River Basins ◽

Ural Region ◽

Time Range ◽

Forest Zone ◽

Early Pottery

A case study of the Neolithic comb ceramic site Pezmog 4 of the Kama culture presents a situation when results of radiocarbon dating change long-existing concepts concerning the development of archaeological events. Until the early 2000s, the chronology of the Kama culture, distributed mainly in the Kama and Vychegda River basins, has been based on comparative-typological analysis. Estimates of the age of this culture changed from the 3rd millennium BC in the 1950s to the 1st half of the 4th millennium BC by the 1990s. Research concerning the Pezmog 4 site in the central Vychegda River basin in 1999–2002 has abruptly changed this chronological understanding. The data obtained put the age of the early stage of Kama culture within the time range 5750–5620 cal BC and allowed us to propose the existence of another way of early pottery distribution in the forest zone of eastern Europe at the beginning of the 6th millennium BC. This innovation probably penetrated from the trans-Ural region.

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Identification of sibling species in the genus Eucyclops from water-bodies of Ukraine and Russia using crossbreeding studies

Ecology and Noospherology ◽

10.15421/031406 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 25 (1-2) ◽

pp. 61-68 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

V. I. Monchenko ◽

L. P. Gaponova ◽

V. R. Alekseev

Keyword(s):

Cryptic Species ◽

River Basin ◽

Black Sea ◽

Species Complex ◽

River Basins ◽

Water Bodies ◽

Similar Species ◽

Basin Water ◽

Different Populations ◽

Baltic Sea Basin

Crossbreeding experiments were used to estimate cryptic species in water bodies of Ukraine and Russia because the most useful criterion in species independence is reproductive isolation. The problem of cryptic species in the genus Eucyclops was examined using interpopulation crosses of populations collected from Baltic Sea basin (pond of Strelka river basin) and Black Sea basin (water-reservoires of Dnieper, Dniester and Danube rivers basins). The results of reciprocal crosses in Eucyclops serrulatus-group are shown that E. serrulatus from different populations but from water bodies belonging to the same river basin crossed each others successfully. The interpopulation crosses of E. serrulatus populations collected from different river basins (Dnipro, Danube and Dniester river basins) were sterile. In this group of experiments we assigned evidence of sterility to four categories: 1) incomplete copulation or absence of copulation; 2) nonviable eggs; 3) absence of egg membranes or egg sacs 4) empty egg membranes. These crossbreeding studies suggest the presence of cryptic species in the E. serrulatus inhabiting ecologically different populations in many parts of its range. The same crossbreeding experiments were carries out between Eucyclops serrulatus and morphological similar species – Eucyclops macruroides from Baltic and Black Sea basins. The reciprocal crossings between these two species were sterile. Thus taxonomic heterogeneity among species of genus Eucyclops lower in E. macruroides than in E. serrulatus. The interpopulation crosses of E. macruroides populations collected from distant part of range were fertile. These crossbreeding studies suggest that E. macruroides species complex was evaluated as more stable than E. serrulatus species complex.

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