Four New Bat Species (Rhinolophus hildebrandtii Complex) Reflect Plio-Pleistocene Divergence of Dwarfs and Giants across an Afromontane Archipelago

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Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Taylor, Peter J ^a,b,e   Stoffberg, Samantha ^c   Monadjem, Ara ^d   Schoeman, Martinus Corrie ^e   Bayliss, Julian ^f,g   Cotterill, Fenton P D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VENDA   (South Africa)

^b Durban Natural Science Museum   (South Africa)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SWAZILAND   (Swaziland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^f Mulanje Mountain Conservation Trust   (Malawi)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; CYTOCHROME B; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BAT; BODY SIZE; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DWARFISM; ECHOLOCATION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GIGANTISM; KENYA; MALE; MOZAMBIQUE; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PARAPHYLY; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION SIZE; RHINOLOPHUS HILDEBRANDTII; SAVANNA; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES HABITAT; SYMPATRY; VICARIANCE; ZIMBABWE;

ACOUSTICS; AFRICA; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY SIZE; CHIROPTERA; CYTOCHROMES B; DATABASES, GENETIC; DWARFISM; ECHOLOCATION; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; GIGANTISM; ISLANDS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

MYA; RHINOLOPHUS; RHINOLOPHUS HILDEBRANDTI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84866324470     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041744     Document Type: Article

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