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Article History
Received: 29 November 2022
Revised: 18 April 2023
Accepted: 8 June 2023
First Online: 21 November 2023
COMPLIANCE WITH ETHICAL STANDARDS
: Conflict of interest . The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
: Statement on the welfare of animals . All applicable international, national and/or institutional guidelines for the care and use of animals have been followed. The appropriate permits from the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources were obtained for the collection of biopsy samples from the Atlantic walrus. Animal-related experiments were approved by the Ethics Committee of the Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119071 Russia, protocol No. 40 dated July 27, 2020.