Variability of hematological parameters in murid rodents of different ecological specialization

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The variability of adaptations to inhabit hypoxia conditions is determined both by its duration and by the presence or absence of concomitant hypercapnia. One of the key parameters shaping these adaptations is the blood oxygen capacity, which, in addition to the affinity of hemoglobin to oxygen, is determined by the number and size of red blood cells, their hemoglobin content and other related characteristics. However, the evolutionary patterns of hematological variability are still unclear. A multidimensional analysis of hemograms in 12 species of murid rodents of various ecological specialization showed the presence of three main factors determining its variability. The first factor is determined by the number of red blood cells, the amount of hemoglobin and hematocrit, the second by the volume of red blood cells and the content of hemoglobin in them, and the third by the concentration of hemoglobin in the blood. The red blood cell volume and hemoglobin content in the northern and zaisan mole voles, specialized for underground life, and the burrowing Dzungarian hamster were significantly higher than in rock voles, capable of living at high altitudes. It can be assumed that the formation of structural adaptations to hypoxia depends on whether it is accompanied by hypercapnia, as in fossorial and subterranean species, or not – as in species living in mountains. At the same time, a significant range of variability of the considered indexes in ecologically and taxonomically related species does not allow us to draw common microevolutionary regularities basing on the available material.

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L. L. Matskalo

Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Novosibirsk State Agrarian University

Email: eug-nov5@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, 11, Frunze St., Novosibirsk, 630091; 130, Dobrolyubov St., Novosibirsk, 630039

O. I. Sebezhko

Novosibirsk State Agrarian University

Email: eug-nov5@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, 130, Dobrolyubov St., Novosibirsk, 630039

I. A. Vasilyev

Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Novosibirsk State Agrarian University

Email: eug-nov5@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, 11, Frunze St., Novosibirsk, 630091; 130, Dobrolyubov St., Novosibirsk, 630039

P. A. Zadubrovsky

Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: eug-nov5@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, 11, Frunze St., Novosibirsk, 630091

O. F. Potapova

Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: eug-nov5@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, 11, Frunze St., Novosibirsk, 630091

E. A. Novikov

Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Novosibirsk State Agrarian University

Author for correspondence.
Email: eug-nov5@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, 11, Frunze St., Novosibirsk, 630091; 130, Dobrolyubov St., Novosibirsk, 630039

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