Italy as a major Ice Age refuge area for the bat Myotis myotis (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in Europe

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1801-1814

  Ruedi, Manuel ^a   Walter, Simon ^b   Fischer, Martin C ^b   Scaravelli, Dino ^c   Excoffier, Laurent ^b   Heckel, Gerald ^b  

^a MUSÉUM D HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c IUCN SSC Bat Specialist Group   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bats; Chiroptera; Glacial refugium; Mitochondrial DNA; Population structure; STR

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAT; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; ICE COVER; ITALY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHIROPTERA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; ICE COVER; ITALY; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANIMALIA; CHIROPTERA; MYOTIS; MYOTIS MYOTIS; VESPERTILIONIDAE;

EID: 41149153420     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2008.03702.x     Document Type: Article

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