The foraging ecology of the Mountain Long-eared bat Plecotus macrobullaris revealed with DNA mini-barcodes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Alberdi, Antton ^a   Garin, Inazio ^a   Aizpurua, Ostaizka ^a   Aihartza, Joxerra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; DNA BARCODING; ECHOLOCATION; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FLY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GEOGRAPHIC ELEVATION; GRASSLAND; MOTH; MOUNTAIN LONG EARED BAT; NONHUMAN; PREY; SPECIES HABITAT; ANIMAL; DNA SEQUENCE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENETICS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEPIDOPTERA; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION;

ANIMAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ANIMALS; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; CHIROPTERA; DIET; DIPTERA; DNA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LEPIDOPTERA; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84860167931     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035692     Document Type: Article

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