Strong population substructure is correlated with morphology and ecology in a migratory bat

Nature

Volumn 424, Issue 6945, 2003, Pages 187-191

  Miller Butterworth, Cassandra M ^a,b   Jacobs, David S ^a   Harley, Eric H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GENES; MORPHOLOGY; POPULATION STATISTICS;

POPULATION SUBSTRUCTURE;

ECOLOGY;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

BAT; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIATION; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; MIGRATORY SPECIES; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; POPULATION GENETICS;

ARTICLE; BAT; BIOME; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECOLOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MAMMAL; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHILOPATRY; POPULATION MIGRATION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FORELIMB; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SOUTH AFRICA;

AVES; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SOUTH AFRICA; VARIATION (GENETICS); WING;

EID: 0037481889     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01742     Document Type: Article

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