Olga Ufyrkina


Laboratory of Genosystematics
Senior Researcher
Candidate of biological sciences(Ph.D.)

Selected publications

2025 - Predator-prey transmission of a gammaherpesvirus from Asian badgers (Meles leucurus) to endangered Amur tigers (Panthera tigris altaica)

Gilbert M., Hill M.A.M., Cheung L.Y.N., Kiser P.K., Seryodkin I.V., Miquelle D.G., Goodrich J.M., Sulikhan N., Uphyrkina O., Goncharuk M., Kerley L., Troyer R.M.

PLOS ONE    Year: 2025 Volume: 20 Issue: 7 Article ID: e0327463

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0327463

2023 - Comparative studies of X chromosomes in Cervidae family

Proskuryakova A.A., Ivanova E.S., Makunin A.I., Larkin D.M., Ferguson-Smith M.A., Yang F., Uphyrkina O.V., Perelman P.L., Graphodatsky A.S.

Scientific Reports    Year: 2023 Volume: 13 Article ID: 11992

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-39088-4

2023 - Ancient DNA reveals genetic admixture in China during tiger evolution

Sun  X., Liu  Y-C., Tiunov  M.P., Gimranov D.O., Zhuang Y., Han Y., Driscoll C.A., Pang Y., Li C., Pan Y., Velasco M.S., Gopalakrishnan S., Yang R-Z., Li B-G., Jin K., Xu X., Uphyrkina O., Huang Y., Wu X-H., Gilbert  M.T.P., O’Brien S.J., Yamaguchi N., Luo S-J.

Nature Ecology & Evolution    Year: 2023 Volume: 7 Pages: 1914–1929

DOI: 10.1038/s41559-023-02185-8

2022 - ТHE FAR EASTERN LEOPARD CAT PRIONAILURUS BENGALENSIS EUPTILURA NEEDS TO BE IN THE RED DATA BOOKS OF PRIMORSKY KRAI AND RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Uphyrkina O.V., Beklemisheva V.R., Goncharuk M.S., Kerley L., Graphodatsky A.S., Perelman P.L.

Biota and environment of natural areas    Year: 2022 Volume: 10 Number: 3 Pages: 21-35

DOI: 10.25221/2782-1978_2022_3_3

IN RUSSIAN

2021 - African and Asian leopards are highly differentiated at the genomic level

Paijmans J.L.A., Barlow A., Becker M.S., Cahill J.A., Fickel J., Förster D.W.G., Gries K., Hartmann S., Havmøller R.W., Henneberger K., Kern C., Kitchener A.C., Lorenzen E.D., Mayer F., OBrien S.J., von Seth J., Sinding M.-H.S., Spong G., Uphyrkina O., Wacher B., Westbury M.V., Dalen L., Bhak J., Manica A., Hofreiter M.

Current Biology    Year: 2021 Volume: 31 Issue: 9 Pages: 1872-1882

DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.03.084

2020 - Distemper, extinction, and vaccination of the Amur tiger

Gilbert M., Sulikhan N., Uphyrkina O., Goncharuk M., Kerley L., Castro E.H., Reeve R., Seimon T., McAloose D., Seryodkin I.V., Naidenko S.V., Davis C.A., Wilkie G.S., Vattipally S.B., Adamson W.E., Hinds C., Thomson E.C., Willett B.J., Hosie M.J., Logan N., McDonald M., Ossiboff R.J., Shevtsova E.I., Belyakin S., Yurlova A.A., Osofsky S.A., Miquelle D.G., Matthews L., Cleaveland S.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)    Year: 2020 Volume: 117 Number: 50 Pages: 31954–31962

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2000153117

2020 - Assessing the health risks of reintroduction: The example of the Amur leopard, Panthera pardus orientalis

Lewis J., Tomlinson A., Gilbert M., Alshinetski M., Arzhanova T., Goncharuk M., Goodrich J., Kerley L., Korotkova I., Miquelle D., Naidenko S., Sulikhan N., Uphyrkina O.

Transboundary and Emerging Diseases    Year: 2020 Number: 67 Issue: 3 Pages: 1177-1188

DOI: 10.1111/tbed.13449

2018 - Genome-Wide Evolutionary Analysis of Natural History and Adaptation in the World’s Tigers

Liu YC, Sun X, Driscoll C., Miquelle D.G., Xu X, Martelli P., Uphyrkina O., Smith J.L.D., O’Brien S.J., Luo SJ

Current Biology    Year: 2018 Volume: 28 Issue: 23 Pages: 3840-3849

DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.09.019

2018 - Canine Distemper Virus in a Wild Far Eastern Leopard Panthera pardus orientalis

Sulikhan N.S., Gilbert M., Blidchenko E.Yu., Naidenko S.V., Ivanchuk G.V., GorpenchenkoT.Yu., Alshinetskiy M.V., Shevtsova E.I., Goodrich J.M., Lewis J.C.M., Goncharuk M.S., Uphyrkina O.V., Rozhnov V.V., Shedko S.V., McAloose D., Miquelle D.G., Seimon T.A.

Journal of Wildlife Diseases    Year: 2018 Volume: 54 Pages: 170-174

DOI: 10.7589/2017-03-065

2016 - Comparison of carnivore, omnivore, and herbivore mammalian genomes with a new leopard assembly

Kim S., Cho Y.S., Kim H-M., Chung O., Kim H., Jho S., Seomun H., Kim J., Bang W.Y., Kim C., Jun JeH., Lee HyeJin, Cho S., Uphyrkina O., Kostyria A., Goodrich J., Miquelle D., Roelke M., Lewis J., Yurchenko A., Bankevich A., Cho J., Lee S., Edwards J.S., Weber J.A., Cook J., Kim S., Lee H., Manica A., Lee I.

Genome Biology    Year: 2016 Volume: 17 Pages: 211

DOI: 10.1186/s13059-016-1071-4

2015 - Canine distemper virus as a threat to wild tigers in Russia and across their range

Gilbert M., Soutyrina S., Seryodkin I., Sulikhan N., Uphyrkina O.V., Goncharuk M., Matthews L., Cleaveland S., Miquelle D.G.

Integrative Zoology    Year: 2015 Volume: 10 Number: 4 Pages: 329-343

DOI: 10.1111/1749-4877.12137

2015 - The Development and Application of a Multiplex STR System for Identifying Subspecies, Individuals and Sex in Tigers

Zou Z-T., Uphyrkina O., Fomenko P., Luo S-J.

Integrative Zoology    Year: 2015 Volume: 10 Number: 4 Pages: 376-388

DOI: 10.1111/1749-4877.12136

2012 - A Program for Reintroduction of The Far Eastern Leopard Into Southern Sixhote-Alin, Primorskii Krai, Russian Far East. Amur Leopard Reintroduction

Spitzen, Miquelle, Darman, Aramilev, Hotte, Bereznyuk, Laptev, Aramileva, Myslenkov, Kerley, Salkina, Arzjanova, Solkin, Uphyrkina и др.

    Year: 2012

2012 - A postulate for tiger recovery: the case of the Caspian Tiger

Driscoll C.A., Chestin I., Jungius H., Pereladova O., Darman Y., Dinerstein E., Seidensticker J., Sanderson J., Christie S., Luo S.J., Shrestha M., Zhuravlev Y., Uphyrkina O., Jhala Y.V., Yadav S.P., Pikunov D.G., Yamaguchi N., Wildt D.E., Smith J.L.D., Marker L., Nyhus P.J., Tilson R., Macdonald D.W., O’Brien S.J.

Journal of Threatened Taxa    Year: 2012 Volume: 4 Number: 6 Pages: 2637-2643

DOI: 10.11609/JoTT.o2993.2637-43

2008 - Subspecies Genetic Assignments of Worldwide Captive Tigers Increase Conservation Value of Captive Populations

Luo Sh.-J., Johnson W.E., Martenson J., Antunes A., Martelli P., Uphyrkina O., Traylor-Holzer K., Smith J.L.D., O'Brien S.J.

Current Biology    Year: 2008 Volume: 18 Issue: 8 Pages: 592-596

DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.03.053

2007 - The leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis euptilura) and Pallas cat (Otocolobus manul) research and conservation projects in Russia

Uphyrkina O., Kiriliuk V., Roelke M.

Hystrix, the Italian Journal of Mammalogy    Year: 2007 Volume: 18 Number: 2 Pages: 350

2004 - Phylogeography and Genetic Ancestry of Tigers (Panthera tigris).

Luo S.-J, Kim J.-H., Johnson W.E., van der Walt J., Martenson J., Menotti-Raymond M., Yuhki N., Miquelle D.G., Uphyrkina O., Goodrich J.M., Quigley H.B., Tilson R., Brady G., Martelli P., Subramaniam V., McDougal C., Hean S., Huang S.-Q., Pan W., Karanth U.K., Sunquist M., Smith J.L.D., O'Brien S.J.

PLoS Biology    Year: 2004 Volume: 2 Number: 12 Pages: 2275-2293

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020442

2003 - Applying Molecular Genetic Tools to the Conservation and Action Plan for the critically endangered Far Eastern leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis).

Uphyrkina O., O’Brien S.J.

Comptes Rendus Biologies    Year: 2003 Volume: 326 Pages: 93-97

DOI: 10.1016/S1631-0691(03)00044-1

2002 - Conservation Genetics of the Far Eastern leopard (Panthera pardus orientlais).

Uphyrkina O., Miquelle D., Quigley H., Driscoll C., O’Brien S.J.

Journal of Heredity    Year: 2002 Volume: 93 Number: 5 Pages: 303-311

DOI: 10.1093/jhered/93.5.303

2001 - Phylogenetics, Genome Diversity and Origin of Modern Leopard, Panthera pardus.

Uphyrkina O., Johnson W., Quigley H., Miquelle D., O'Brien S.J.

Molecular Ecology    Year: 2001 Volume: 10 Number: 11 Pages: 2617-2633

DOI: 10.1046/j.0962-1083.2001.01350.x

1995 - Genomic fingerprints in crows: a study of the genetic structure of populations of the hybrid zone

Uphyrkina O.V., Vasiliev V.A., Kryukov A.P., Ryskov A.P.

Russian Journal of Genetics    Year: 1995 Volume: 31 Number: 7 Pages: 753-757

1992 - Analysis of the Crow genomes (Corvidae, Passeriformes) from the zone of overlapping areas and hybridization

Kryukov A.P., Uphyrkina O.V., Chelomina G.N.

Russian Journal of Genetics    Year: 1992 Volume: 28 Number: 6 Pages: 136-140