Behavioural and genetic data suggest that Bechstein's bats predominantly mate outside the breeding habitat

Ethology

Volumn 110, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 987-999

  Kerth, Gerald ^a   Morf, Lea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAT; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GENE FLOW; MATING BEHAVIOR; ROOSTING;

MAMMALIA; MYOTIS; MYOTIS BECHSTEINI;

EID: 11144288762     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2004.01040.x     Document Type: Article

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