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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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SYSNO ASEP 0544611 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Článek ve WOS Title Concordant patterns of genetic, acoustic, and morphological divergence in the West African Old World leaf-nosed bats of the Hipposideros caffer complex Author(s) Baldwin, H. J. (DE)
Vallo, Peter (UBO-W) RID, SAI, ORCID
Ruiz, A. T. (DE)
Anti, P. (GH)
Nkrumah, E. E. (GH)
Badu, E. K. (GH)
Oppong, S. K. (GH)
Kalko, E. K. V. (DE)
Tschapka, M. (DE)
Stow, A. J. (AU)Number of authors 10 Source Title Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. - : Wiley - ISSN 0947-5745
Roč. 59, č. 6 (2021), s. 1390-1407Number of pages 18 s. Language eng - English Country DE - Germany Keywords cytochrome b ; Hipposideridae ; Hipposideros ruber ; nuclear microsatellites ; phylogeny Subject RIV EG - Zoology OECD category Zoology Method of publishing Open access Institutional support UBO-W - RVO:68081766 UT WOS 000679128900001 EID SCOPUS 85111492056 DOI 10.1111/jzs.12506 Annotation 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. Workplace Institute of Vertebrate Biology Contact Hana Slabáková, slabakova@ivb.cz, Tel.: 543 422 524 Year of Publishing 2022 Electronic address https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jzs.12506
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