Intraspecific variation of Myotis emarginatus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear genetic markers

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00023272:_____/21:10135510

Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3161/15081109ACC2021.23.2.002" target="_blank" >10.3161/15081109ACC2021.23.2.002</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Intraspecific variation of Myotis emarginatus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear genetic markers

Original language description

Geoffroy&apos;s bat, Myotis emarginatus, is the only species of the African Glade of the genus Myotis distributed in the south-western part of the Palaearctic. Due to its extensive distribution range, stretching across several ecologic zones from the European and African Mediterranean, Central Europe, through the Levant and Caucasus to West Turkestan and south-eastern Middle East, this bat is traditionally considered to be a variable and polytypic species. While one subspecies was recognized in Europe and North Africa, up to four subspecies were reported from the Asian part of the species range. Nevertheless, the systematic positions of different populations and the validity of particular taxa remained unclear. Our aim was to revise the phylogenetic status of M. emarginatus and, for the first time, genetically analyse samples from the Asian part of its range to provide new insight into its intraspecific variation. We analysed sequences of two mitochondrial and three nuclear markers from more than 130 samples from all parts of the species range, together with sequences from other species from the African Glade of the genus Myotis. According to the previous morphometric results of body and skull dimensions. M. emarginatus can be divided into two groups of populations: the small-sized and more variable bats of Europe, the Maghreb and Levant; and the large-sized bats of the rest of the Asian range. This division was well supported by mitochondrial genes, which separated two main lineages within the species: the western lineage from Europe, the Maghreb and Levant; and the eastern lineage from the eastern Middle East and West Turkestan. Both mitochondrial lineages were further divided into two sublineages: the western lineage to sublineages from the Holy Land and the rest of the Mediterranean range; and the eastern lineage to sublineages from Oman and southern Iran, and northern Iran and West Turkestan. In contrast, the nuclear genes reconstructed only one lineage through the whole distribution range, suggesting M. emarginatus to be a monophyletic species. Nevertheless, on the basis of previously described geographical variability in morphology and the newly described mitochondrial variation, we recognize two subspecies within M. emarginatus: small-sized M. e. emarginatus distributed in the Mediterranean, western and central Europe and Levant; and large-sized M. e. desertorum in the eastern Middle East, from Oman to West Turkestan.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10613 - Zoology

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Acta Chiropterologica

ISSN

1508-1109

e-ISSN

1733-5329

Volume of the periodical

23

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

285-300

UT code for WoS article

000759006400002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85108216252