Abstract
The high value of sable furs (Martes zibellina) and, as a consequence, long periods of unsustainable hunting have led to significant fluctuations in the size of natural populations of this species. Sables were domesticated on an industrial scale for the stabilization of this traditional Russian export. Animals from eight natural populations were used for the creation of the first fur farm (1929). Pursued for 80 years, industrial domestication has made it possible to create sable herds with homogeneous quantitative characteristics. The prospects for further breeding are connected to the current level of genetic diversity, which has resulted due to the industrial domestication. For the first time, an approach for the estimation of the level of genetic variability of Martes zibellina using microsatellite markers has been developed. A first study of the industrial population of sable at six microsatellite loci was carried out; a number of population parameters (set of alleles, heterozygosity, etc.) were determined.
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