Large-scale mitochondrial DNA analysis reveals new light on the phylogeography of Central and Eastern-European Brown hare (Lepus europaeus Pallas, 1778)

• Mohammad Reza Ashrafzadeh,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Fisheries and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Natural Resources and Earth Sciences, Shahrekord University, Shahrekord, Iran

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• Mihajla Djan,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia

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• László Szendrei,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Institute of Animal Husbandry, Biotechnology and Nature Conservation, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary

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• Algimantas Paulauskas,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania

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• Massimo Scandura,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy

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• Zoltán Bagi,

  Roles Project administration, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institutes for Agricultural Research and Educational Farm, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary

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• Daniela Elena Ilie,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research and Development Station for Bovine Arad, Academy for Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Arad, Romania

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• Nikoloz Kerdikoshvili,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Tbilisi Zoo, Tbilisi, Georgia

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• Panek Marek,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Polish Hunting Association, Research Station, Czempiń, Poland

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• Noémi Soós,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Institute of Animal Husbandry, Biotechnology and Nature Conservation, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary

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• Szilvia Kusza

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: kusza@agr.unideb.hu

  Affiliation Institute of Animal Husbandry, Biotechnology and Nature Conservation, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5441-5303

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