Insights into the evolution of a cryptic radiation of bats: Dispersal and ecological radiation of Malagasy Miniopterus (Chiroptera: Miniopteridae)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Christidis, Les ^a,b   Goodman, Steven M ^c,d   Naughton, Kate ^b   Appleton, Belinda ^b,e  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^d ASSOCIATION VAHATRA   (Madagascar)

^e DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ARTICLE; BAT; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTIC RADIATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MADAGASCAR; MINIOPTERUS; MINIOPTERUS AELLENI A; MINIOPTERUS AELLENI B; MINIOPTERUS BRACHYTRAGOS; MINIOPTERUS EGERI; MINIOPTERUS GLENI; MINIOPTERUS GRIFFITHSI; MINIOPTERUS GRIVEAUDI; MINIOPTERUS MAHAFALIENSIS; MINIOPTERUS MAJORI; MINIOPTERUS MANAVI; MINIOPTERUS PETERSONI; MINIOPTERUS SORORCULUS; MITOCHONDRIAL CYTOCHROME B GENE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION DISPERSION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMOROS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CHIROPTERA; COMOROS; CYTOCHROMES B; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; MADAGASCAR; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84898615193     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092440     Document Type: Article

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