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Subfamily of carnivores
Mustelinae is a
subfamily of
family
Mustelidae , which includes
weasels ,
ferrets , and
minks .
[1]
[2]
It was formerly defined in a
paraphyletic manner to also include
wolverines ,
martens , and many other mustelids, to the exclusion of the
otters (
Lutrinae ).
[3]
Extant species of Mustelinae
Subfamily Mustelinae
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Genus
Living species
Mustela Linnaeus, 1758 (weasels, ferrets, European mink and stoats)
Mountain weasel , Mustela altaica
Stoat or ermine, Mustela erminea
Steppe polecat , Mustela eversmannii
Domestic ferret , Mustela furo
Haida ermine , Mustela haidarum
Japanese weasel , Mustela itatsi
Yellow-bellied weasel , Mustela kathiah
European mink , Mustela lutreola
Indonesian mountain weasel , Mustela lutreolina
Black-footed ferret , Mustela nigripes
Least weasel , Mustela nivalis
Malayan weasel , Mustela nudipes
European polecat , Mustela putorius
American ermine , Mustela richardsonii
Siberian weasel , Mustela sibirica
Back-striped weasel , Mustela strigidorsa
Neogale
Gray , 1865 (New World weasels and mink)
The
sea mink (Neogale macrodon ) is a recently
extinct species from the 19th century that was native to the
Maritime Provinces of
Canada and
New England in the
United States .
Importance for humans
Some of the fashion furs come from this subfamily: ermine, weasel, mink and polecat.
[4]
Ferret model of COVID-19
Mustela sibirica
COVID-19 can infect both the
European mink (Mustela lutreola ) and the
American mink (Neogale vison ). Ferrets are used to study
COVID-19 .
[5] Ferrets get some of the same symptoms as humans,
[6] but they get less sick than farmed
mink .
[7] Ferrets are a fairly uncommon animal to use as a model, but mice were not an easy model of
COVID-19 because mice lack the
ACE2 gene.
[5]
References
^ Nascimento, F. O. do (2014).
"On the correct name for some subfamilies of Mustelidae (Mammalia, Carnivora)" . Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia . 54 (21): 307–313.
doi :
10.1590/0031-1049.2014.54.21 .
^ Law, C. J.; Slater, G. J.; Mehta, R. S. (2018-01-01).
"Lineage Diversity and Size Disparity in Musteloidea: Testing Patterns of Adaptive Radiation Using Molecular and Fossil-Based Methods" . Systematic Biology . 67 (1): 127–144.
doi :
10.1093/sysbio/syx047 .
PMID
28472434 .
^ Koepfli KP, Deere KA, Slater GJ, et al. (2008).
"Multigene phylogeny of the Mustelidae: Resolving relationships, tempo and biogeographic history of a mammalian adaptive radiation" . BMC Biol . 6 : 4–5.
doi :
10.1186/1741-7007-6-10 .
PMC
2276185 .
PMID
18275614 .
^
"History of Fur in Fashion: Introduction" . 4 December 2011.
^
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doi :
10.1038/s41586-020-2787-6 .
ISSN
1476-4687 .
PMC
8136862 .
PMID
32967005 .
^
"Table 1 SARS-CoV-2 infection in humans and in animal models" . Retrieved 14 November 2020 .
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