Syntopic Occurrence in Turkey Supports Separate Species Status for<i>Miniopterus schreibersii schreibersii</i>and<i>M. schreibersii pallidus</i>(Mammalia: Chiroptera)

Bi̇lgi̇n, Raşi̇t; Gürün, Kanat; Maraci, Öncü; Furman, Andrzej; Hulva, Pavel; Çoraman, Emrah; Lučan, Radek; Bartonička, Tomáš; Horáček, Ivan

doi:10.3161/150811012x661611

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“…This level is much lower in bats, with about 1,260 species known world-wide [3] and about 14 species known to produce interspecific hybrids. The few published cases include black ( Pteropus alecto ) and grey-headed ( P. poliocephalus ) flying-foxes [4], sibling species of the horseshoe bat ( Rhinolophus yunanensis and R. pearsoni [5]), common ( Pipistrellus pipistrellus ) and soprano ( P. pygmaeus ) pipistrelles [6]), the mouse-eared bat ( Myotis myotis and M. oxygnathus [7], [8], see also [9]), and the bent-winged bat ( Miniopterus schreibersii and M. pallidus [10]). Hybrid origin of a Caribbean species of bat ( Artibeus schwartzi ) has also been hypothesized, where hybridization among three species and subsequent isolation of hybrids have contributed to the formation of a distinct species-level lineage [11].…”

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Hybridization Hotspots at Bat Swarming Sites

2012

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During late summer and early autumn in temperate zones of the Northern Hemisphere, thousands of bats gather at caves, mainly for the purpose of mating. We demonstrated that this swarming behavior most probably leads not only to breeding among bats of the same species but also interbreeding between different species. Using 14 nuclear microsatellites and three different methods (the Bayesian assignment approaches of STRUCTURE and NEWHYBRIDS and a principal coordinate analysis of pairwise genetic distances), we analyzed 375 individuals belonging to three species of whiskered bats (genus Myotis) at swarming sites across their sympatric range in southern Poland. The overall hybridization rate varied from 3.2 to 7.2%. At the species level, depending on the method used, these values ranged from 2.1–4.6% in M. mystacinus and 3.0–3.7% in M. brandtii to 6.5–30.4% in M. alcathoe. Hybrids occurred in about half of the caves we studied. In all three species, the sex ratio of hybrids was biased towards males but the observed differences did not differ statistically from those noted at the population level. In our opinion, factors leading to the formation of these admixed individuals and their relatively high frequency are: i) swarming behaviour at swarming sites, where high numbers of bats belonging to several species meet; ii) male-biased sex ratio during the swarming period; iii) the fact that all these bats are generally polygynous. The highly different population sizes of different species at swarming sites may also play some role. Swarming sites may represent unique hybrid hotspots, which, as there are at least 2,000 caves in the Polish Carpathians alone, may occur on a massive scale not previously observed for any group of mammal species in the wild. Evidently, these sites should be treated as focal points for the conservation of biodiversity and evolutionary processes.

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Hybridization Hotspots at Bat Swarming Sites

2012

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“…Although M. fuliginosus and M. magnater can be identified based on genetic data, it is difficult to distinguish them in the field from living individuals because of their overlapping morphological characters, which is very common in Genus Miniopterus bat species, such as M. schreibersii and M. maghrebensis, or M. pallidus (Furman et al 2009;Bilgin et al 2012, Puechmaille et al 2014. In this study, we found that the FA, M 3 width, and GLS were significantly different between M. fuliginosus and M. magnater, with individuals from M. magnater significantly larger than those of M. fuliginosus.…”

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Mitochondrial genetic differentiation and morphological difference of Miniopterus fuliginosus and Miniopterus magnater in China and Vietnam

Shi

Sun

et al. 2015

Ecology and Evolution

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Because of its complicated systematics, the bent-winged bat is one of the most frequently studied bat species groups. In China, two morphologically similar bent-winged bat species, Miniopterus fuliginosus and Miniopterus magnater were identified, but their distribution range and genetic differentiation are largely unexplored. In this study, we applied DNA bar codes and two other mitochondrial DNA genes including morphological parameters to determine the phylogeny, genetic differentiation, spatial distribution, and morphological difference of the M. fuliginosus and M. magnater sampled from China and one site in Vietnam. Mitochondrial DNA gene genealogies revealed two monophyletic lineages throughout the Tropic of Cancer. According to DNA bar code divergences, one is M. fuliginosus corresponding to the Chinese mainland and the other is M. magnater corresponding to tropical regions including Hainan and Guangdong provinces of China and Vietnam. Their most recent common ancestor was dated to the early stage of the Quaternary glacial period (ca. 2.26 million years ago [Ma] on the basis of D-loop data, and ca. 1.69–2.37 Ma according to ND2). A population expansion event was inferred for populations of M. fuliginosus at 0.14 Ma. The two species probably arose in separate Pleistocene refugia under different climate zones. They significantly differed in forearm length, maxillary third molar width, and greatest length of the skull.

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“…For the PCA, our data set was combined with a data set of eight individuals of M. schreibersii s.str. from Turkey (Bilgin et al, 2012). To investigate whether hybridisation is occurring between the two taxa, we used a model-based Bayesian statistical technique implemented in STRUCTURE v 2.3.4 (Pritchard et al, 2000).…”

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“…Nevertheless, current taxonomic revisions suggest that M. schreibersii sensu lato represents a large complex from which several species have been recognized in the last decade. The latest change being the elevation of M. s. pallidus Thomas, 1907, as a full species (M. pallidus) following morphometric, mitochondrial and nuclear data (Furman et al, 2010;Bilgin et al, 2012). The type locality of Vespertilio schreibersii (=M.…”

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A new species of the Miniopterus schreibersii species complex (Chiroptera: Miniopteridae) from the Maghreb Region, North Africa

Puechmaille

Allegrini

Benda

et al. 2014

Zootaxa

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(English)We used an integrative approach combining cranio-dental characters, mitochondrial and nuclear data and acoustic data to show the presence in the genus Miniopterus of a cryptic species from the Maghreb region. This species was previously recognised as Miniopterus schreibersii (Kuhl, 1817). Miniopterus maghrebensis sp. nov. can be differentiated from M. schreibersii sensu stricto on the basis of cranial characters and from mitochondrial DNA and microsatellite evidence. Although slight external morphological and acoustic differences were noted between the two species, these criteria alone did not allow reliable species identification from live animals. Based on the specimens identified morphologically and/or genetically, the distribution range of M. maghrebensis sp. nov. extends from northern Morocco to south of the High Atlas Mountains and northern Tunisia. The new cryptic species is found in sympatry with M. schreibersii s.str. near coastal regions of North Africa.Key words: Bats, cryptic species, echolocation, Mammalia, Morocco Abstract (French)Nous avons utilisé une approche intégrative combinant des analyses cranio-dentaires, des marqueurs moléculaires mitochondriaux et nucléaires ainsi que des données acoustiques pour montrer la présence dans le genre Miniopterus d'une espèce cryptique en provenance du Maghreb. Cette espèce était auparavant reconnue en tant que Miniopterus schreibersii (Kuhl, 1817). Miniopterus maghrebensis sp. nov. est différencié de M. schreibersii sensu stricto sur la base de caractères crâniaux ainsi que des marqueurs moléculaires mitochondriaux et des microsatellites. Bien que de petites différences morphologiques externes et acoustiques aient été notées entre les deux espèces, ces critères à eux seuls ne permettent pas d'identifier de manière fiable les animaux sur le terrain. Sur la base d'identifications morphologiques et/ou génétiques de spécimens, M. maghrebensis sp. nov. s'étends du nord du Maroc jusqu'au sud des montagnes du Haut Atlas et au nord de la Tunisie. Cette nouvelle espèce cryptique est trouvée en sympatrie avec M. schreibersii s.str. près des régions côtières d'Afrique du Nord.Zootaxa 3794 (1)

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Syntopic Occurrence in Turkey Supports Separate Species Status forMiniopterus schreibersii schreibersiiandM. schreibersii pallidus(Mammalia: Chiroptera)

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Hybridization Hotspots at Bat Swarming Sites

Hybridization Hotspots at Bat Swarming Sites

Mitochondrial genetic differentiation and morphological difference of Miniopterus fuliginosus and Miniopterus magnater in China and Vietnam

A new species of the Miniopterus schreibersii species complex (Chiroptera: Miniopteridae) from the Maghreb Region, North Africa

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