Wings or winds: Inferring bat migration in a stepping-stone archipelago

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1298-1306

  Weyeneth, N ^a   Goodman, S M ^b,c   Appleton, B ^d   Wood, R ^d   Ruedi, M ^a  

^a MUSÉUM D HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (Switzerland)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^c Vahatra   (Madagascar)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coalescence; Colonization history; Comoros; D loop; Gene flow; Madagascar; Microsatellites; Miniopterus

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANCESTRY; ARCHIPELAGO; BAT; COALESCENCE; COLONIZATION; DISPERSAL; ENDEMIC SPECIES; EOCENE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC MARKER; MIGRATION; OCEANIC CURRENT; PLEISTOCENE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAT; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; FLYING; FORELIMB; GENE FLOW; GEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; WIND;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; GENE FLOW; GEOGRAPHY; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WIND; WING;

AFRICA; INDIAN OCEAN;

MAMMALIA; MINIOPTERUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79955664271     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011.02262.x     Document Type: Article

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