Olga Ufyrkina


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

Elibrary Author ID: 84241

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     2025; 20(7): 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     2023; 13: 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     2023; 7: 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     2022; 10(3): 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     2021; 31(9): 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)     2020; 117(50): 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     2020; (3): 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     2018; 28(23): 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     2018; 54: 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     2016; 17: 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     2015; 10(4): 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     2015; 10(4): 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.

    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     2012; 4(6): 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     2008; 18(8): 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     2007; 18(2): 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     2004; 2(12): 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     2003; 326: 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     2002; 93(5): 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     2001; 10(11): 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     1995; 31(7): 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     1992; 28(6): 136-140