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This research was carried out under the research project “Sequencing and analysis of the mitochondrial genome of European mink (Mustela lutreola)”, funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Poland—an internal grant for young scientists and participants of doctoral studies at the Faculty of Biology of the University of Szczecin, 2016–2018.