Ancient DNA reveals genetic admixture in China during tiger evolution

X Sun, YC Liu, MP Tiunov, DO Gimranov… - Nature ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
The tiger (Panthera tigris) is a charismatic megafauna species that originated and diversified
in Asia and probably experienced population contraction and expansion during the …

Late Pleistocene and Holocene small mammal (Lipotyphla, Rodentia, Lagomorpha) remains from Medvezhyi Klyk Cave in the Southern Russian Far East

VE Omelko, YV Kuzmin, MP Tiunov, LL Voyta… - Труды Зоологического …, 2020 - elib.sbras.ru
rus: Впервые для позднего плейстоцена-голоцена Дальнего Востока России описаны
фаунистические комплексы мелких млекопитающих (Lipotyphla, Rodentia, и …

When beremendiin shrews disappeared in East Asia, or how we can estimate fossil redeposition

LL Voyta, VE Omelko, MP Tiunov… - Historical Biology, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The current paper first time describes a small Beremendia from the late Pleistocene deposits
in the Koridornaya Cave locality (Russian Far East), which associated with the extinct …

Comparison of genetic and morphological characters in fossil teeth of grey voles from the Russian Far East (Rodentia: Cricetidae: Alexandromys)

E Haring, LL Voyta, B Däubl, MP Tiunov - Mammalian Biology, 2015 - Springer
Far-Eastern grey voles of the genus Alexandromys are a group of 12 species distributed
exclusively in the Eastern Palearctic. Morphologically they are hard to be distinguished due …

The first fossil Petaurista (Mammalia: Sciuridae) from the Russian Far East and its paleogeographic significance

MP Tiunov, DO Gimranov - Palaeoworld, 2020 - Elsevier
For the first time in the south of the Russian Far East in the Late Pleistocene cave deposits,
fragments of the giant flying squirrel of the genus Petaurista were discovered. Petaurista …

A new extinct ochotonid genus from the late Pleistocene of the Russian Far East

MP Tiunov, AE Gusev - Palaeoworld, 2021 - Elsevier
A new genus, Tonomochota n. gen., and three new species, T. khasanensis n. sp., T.
sikhotana n. sp., and T. major n. sp. of Ochotonidae are described from late Pleistocene …

Late Quaternary shrews (Soricomorpha: Soricidae) from Priamurye (Russian Far East) according to data from Koridornaya Cave: species diversity and stratigraphical …

VE Omelko, MP Tiunov - Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, 2024 - Springer
Abstract During excavations at Koridornaya Cave (Pompeevskiy Ridge, Russian Far East) in
2017–2018 numerous skeletal elements of late Quaternary mammals were recovered for the …

Late Pleistocene and Holocene malacological and theriological faunas from the Tetyukhinskaya Cave (southern Far East, Russia) and their palaeoecological …

E Osipova, G Danukalova, M Tiunov - Palaeoworld, 2024 - Elsevier
Assemblages of terrestrial molluscs and small vertebrates were recovered from the
Tetyukhinskaya Cave, located in the vicinity of the Dalnegorsk city, Primorsky Krai (south of …

Ancient DNA Reveals China as a Historical Genetic Melting Pot in Tiger Evolution

X Sun, YC Liu, MP Tiunov, DO Gimranov, Y Zhuang… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
The contrast between the tiger's (Panthera tigris) 2-3 My age and extant tigers' coalescence
approximately 110,000 years ago suggests an ancient demographic bottleneck. Here we …

Changes in the fauna of bats in the south of the Russian Far East since the late Pleistocene

MP Tiunov - Quaternary International, 2016 - Elsevier
The aim of the study was to identify changes in the fauna of bats during the late Pleistocene
and Holocene in Southeast Russia, to utilize the results together with environmental data to …