Concordant patterns of genetic, acoustic, and morphological divergence in the West African Old World leaf-nosed bats of the Hipposideros caffer complex
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Result on the web
<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jzs.12506" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jzs.12506</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jzs.12506" target="_blank" >10.1111/jzs.12506</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Concordant patterns of genetic, acoustic, and morphological divergence in the West African Old World leaf-nosed bats of the Hipposideros caffer complex
Original language description
Levels of biodiversity are globally underestimated, especially in tropical ecosystems. This is particularly so for bats compared to other mammalian taxa, due to morphological conservatism. Here, we investigate West African bats of the Hipposideros caffer complex, an insectivorous bat group occurring throughout the Afrotropics. From samples collected in Ghana, we aim to resolve the cryptic diversity identified by mitochondrial (mt) DNA using nuclear genetic, acoustic, and external morphometric data. We confirmed the presence of four previously established mtDNA lineages within the H. caffer complex and found significant genetic divergence among lineages based on nuclear microsatellite data and significant differences in frequencies of echolocation calls and morphometric measures. From these new data, we conclude that H. caffer complex in West Africa consists of at least four distinct species. While the small-sized species from coastal savanna could be assigned to H. caffer tephrus, the taxonomic identity of the three sympatric, similarly sized species pertaining to H. ruber from the forest zone of Central Ghana is yet to be assessed.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - 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
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research
ISSN
0947-5745
e-ISSN
1439-0469
Volume of the periodical
59
Issue of the periodical within the volume
6
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
18
Pages from-to
1390-1407
UT code for WoS article
000679128900001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85111492056