What you need is what you eat? Prey selection by the bat Myotis daubentonii

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1581-1594

  Vesterinen, Eero J ^a,b   Ruokolainen, Lasse ^b   Wahlberg, Niklas ^a,c   Peña, Carlos ^a   Roslin, Tomas ^b,d   Laine, Veronika N ^e   Vasko, Ville ^a   Sääksjärvi, Ilari E ^a   Norrdahl, Kai ^a   Lilley, Thomas M ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^e NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^f BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

diet analysis; DNA barcoding; insects; Myotis daubentonii; population ecology; predator prey interactions

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL; BAT; CHIRONOMIDAE; CLASSIFICATION; DIET; DNA BARCODING; DNA SEQUENCE; FECES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; INSECT; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SEASON; SIMULIIDAE; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; CHIRONOMIDAE; CHIROPTERA; DIET; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; FECES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; INSECTS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEASONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIMULIIDAE;

EID: 84960888359     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.13564     Document Type: Article

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