Affinities and historical zoogeography of the New Zealand short-tailed bat, Mystacina tuberculoid Gray 1843, inferred from DNA-Hybridization Comparisons

Journal of Mammalian Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 33-64

  Kirsch, John A W ^a   Hutcheon, James M ^a   Byrnes, Deanna G P ^a   Lloyd, Brian D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bat evolution; Chiroptera; Molecular phylogeny; Mystacinidae; Plate tectonics

Indexed keywords

EID: 54649085021     PISSN: 10647554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020519019830     Document Type: Review

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