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Division of Mammalogy is a unit of Zoological Museum, its staff now consists of 6 persons dealing with mammals and curating collection of the Division. I.Ya. Pavlinov is the Chief of the Division. The principal fields of interests are classical taxonomy (predominantly phylogenetic one) of certain mammal taxa (mainly rodents, bats, lagomorphs), fauna and ecological morphology. Some theoretical problems of taxonomy and phylogenetics are also being studied. Collections of recent mammals of the World constitute the basis of collection stock of the Division. They are basically of classic kind: dry skins and skulls, postcranial skeletons, alcohol specimens. Most recently, a collection tissue samples for DNA analyses started. By amount and taxonomic representation, collection of the Division is one of the largest in the World. The collection includes not only the specimens
proper but various forms of documentations. Electronic data base
is held on since 1998. The office (room ¹ 30) and most of collection rooms (¹ 32-40) of the Division, as well as working places for the visitors are situated on the second floor of the right wing of the Museum building (along B. Nikitskaya Str.). The office phones are 629-49-30, 629-48-60, 629-49-12. |
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