Integrated operational taxonomic units (IOTUs) in echolocating bats: A bridge between molecular and traditional taxonomy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Galimberti, Andrea ^a   Spada, Martina ^b   Russo, Danilo ^c   Mucedda, Mauro ^d   Agnelli, Paolo ^e   Crottini, Angelica ^a,f   Ferri, Emanuele ^a   Martinoli, Adriano ^b   Casiraghi, Maurizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d Gruppo Speleologico Sassarese e Centro Pipistrelli Sardegna   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^f CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAT; DNA BARCODING; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); INTEGRATED OPERATIONAL TAXONOMIC UNIT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR OPERATIONAL TAXONOMIC UNIT; MORPHOLOGY; MYOTIS BECHSTEINII; MYOTIS NATTERERI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLECOTUS AURITUS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHIROPTERA; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; DNA PRIMERS; ECHOLOCATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

MYOTIS NATTERERI; OTUS; PLECOTUS AURITUS; VESPERTILIONIDAE;

EID: 84862992808     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040122     Document Type: Article

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