Colonization and dispersal in a social species, the Bechstein's bat (Myotis bechsteinii)

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 3943-3950

  Kerth, Gerald ^a   Petit, Eric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Chiroptera; Colonization; Fragmentation; Isolation by distance; Metapopulation; Sex biased dispersal

Indexed keywords

CHIROPTERA; MYOTIS BECHSTEINI;

MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; GERMANY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; GERMANY; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; POPULATION DYNAMICS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 33646196945     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2005.02719.x     Document Type: Article

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