Data from: Bibliography of studies on hybrid zones of the common shrew chromosome races distributed in Russia

The common shrew, Sorex araneus Linnaeus, 1758, has become a model species for cytogenetic and evolutionary studies after discovery of extraordinary Robertsonian polymorphism at the within-species level. Development of differential staining techniques (Q-, R-and G-banding) made it possible to identify the chromosomal arms and their combination in racial karyotypes. Entering into contact with each other, the chromosomal races might form hybrid zones which represent a great interest for understanding of the process of speciation. Until recently all known hybrid zones of S. araneus were localized in Western Europe and only one was identified in Siberia (Russia) between Novosibirsk and Tomsk races (Aniskin and Lukianova 1989, Searle and Wójcik 1998, Polyakov et al. 2011). However, a rapidly growing number of reports on discovery of interracial hybrid zones of Sorex araneus in the European part of Russia and neighboring territories appeared lately. The aim of the present work is to compile the bibliography of all studies covering this topic regardless of the original language and the publishing source which hopefully could make research data more accessible to international scientists. It could also be a productive way to save current history of Sorex araneus researches in full context of the ISACC (International Sorex araneus Cytogenetics Committee) heritage (Searle et al. 2007, Zima 2008).

普通鼩鼱（Sorex araneus Linnaeus, 1758）自其种内存在显著的罗伯逊多态性被发现以来，已成为细胞遗传学与进化生物学研究的经典模式物种。差异染色技术（Q显带、R显带与G显带）的发展，使得研究者能够识别染色体臂及其在染色体宗核型中的组合形式。不同染色体宗相互接触后可形成杂交带，这一现象为物种形成过程的解析提供了重要研究载体。直至近年，所有已报道的普通鼩鼱杂交带均分布于西欧，仅在俄罗斯西伯利亚地区的新西伯利亚宗与托木斯克宗之间发现过一处（Aniskin及Lukianova 1989；Searle及Wójcik 1998；Polyakov等2011）。但近年来相关研究报道数量快速增长，学界陆续在俄罗斯欧洲部分及邻近区域发现普通鼩鼱的染色体宗间杂交带。本研究的目标在于，汇总该主题下所有相关研究的参考文献（无论原始语言与发表来源），以期提升国际科研人员对相关研究数据的可及性。同时，本研究也可成为完整保留普通鼩鼱研究历史的有效途径，契合国际普通鼩鼱细胞遗传学委员会（International Sorex araneus Cytogenetics Committee，ISACC）的学术传承理念（Searle等2007；Zima 2008）。