Acknowledgements
The authors express their sincere thanks to Dr A. P. Kryukov for establishing Russian-Chinese collaboration and attending the expedition to the Qinling, Dr M. V. Pavlenko for help in collecting of material, Dr I. V. Kartavtseva for valuable comments, advice and help in writing the manuscript. Special thanks to Dr N. A. Formozov for his help in molecular identifying of the Ochotona huangensis species.
This work was partially supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Project no. 06-04-39015; Far East Branch Russian Acad. Sci., Project no. 09-II-CO-06-007 and grant “Complex expeditionary researches of environment of Amur river basin 2004-2007”. The study was conducted with the technical support of laboratory microscopy of center for collective use “Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering”