Phylogeography of Barbastelle bats (Barbastella barbastellus) in the western Mediterranean and the Canary Islands

• Main Authors: Juste, Javier, Ibáñez, Carlos, Trujillo, D., Muñoz, Joaquín, Ruedi, Manuel
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Polish Academy of Sciences 2003
• Subjects: Barbastella; Mediterranean; Canary Islands; Phylogeography; cytochrome b; Control region; mtDNA; Gibraltar Strait; Thrace; Barbastella barbastellus
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/48665

We use two mitochondrial DNA fragments with different substitution rates (cytochrome b gene and the control region) to address the following phylogeographic questions about western Palaearctic populations of the barbastelle bat (Barbastella barbastellus): 1) Do the Iberian populations of barbastelle...