Determinants of echolocation call frequency variation in the Formosan lesser horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus monoceros)

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1674, 2009, Pages 3901-3909

  Chen, Shiang Fan ^a,b   Jones, Gareth ^a   Rossiter, Stephen J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic; Chiroptera; Cultural drift; Maternal transmission; Microsatellites

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; BAT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CULTURAL CHANGE; ECHOLOCATION; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC STRUCTURE; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MATERNAL EFFECT; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); VICARIANCE; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BAT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOLOCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); MALE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHINOLOPHUS MONOCEROS; SEX DIFFERENCE; VOCALIZATION; ANIMAL; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TAIWAN; TIME;

CHIROPTERA; RHINOLOPHUS; RHINOLOPHUS MONOCEROS;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; ECHOLOCATION; FEMALE; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TAIWAN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70449702064     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1185     Document Type: Article

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