Kalinina, Svetlana https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1906-092X
Ilyukha, Viktor https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7085-4154
Panchenko, Danila https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1955-4196
Sokolova, Natalia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6692-4375
Nikerova, Kseniya https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8437-0858
Terekhina, Alexandra https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2949-0520
Volkovitskiy, Alexander https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8767-0944
Article History
Received: 12 September 2025
Accepted: 20 January 2026
First Online: 18 February 2026
Declarations
:
: Hair samples were collected from living reindeer, and also from animals that were legally harvested by hunters or found after poaching, and no animals were sacrificed for the sake of this study, therefore no ethical approval was needed for compliance with our institutional or governmental organizations.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: All the authors gave explicit consent to submit the work to the journal.
: All the authors gave their consent to participate in the work.