Communally breeding Bechstein's bats have a stable social system that is independent from the postglacial history and location of the populations

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2368-2381

  Kerth, Gerald ^a,b   Petrov, Boyan ^c   Conti, Andrej ^d   Anastasov, Danijela ^d   Weishaar, Manfred ^e   Gazaryan, Suren ^f   Jaquiéry, Julie ^a   König, Barbara ^b   Perrin, Nicolas ^a   Bruyndonckx, Nadia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

^e Kabardino Balkarian Scientific Centre of RAS ^*  (Germany)

^f Institute of Ecology of Mountain Territories   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Glacial refugium; Mating system; Myotis bechsteinii; Phylogeography; Population history; Social organization

Indexed keywords

DNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAT; DNA SEQUENCE; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; DNA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EUROPE; FEMALE; HAPLOTYPES; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; MYOTIS BECHSTEINI;

EID: 43049101467     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2008.03768.x     Document Type: Article

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