2004
DOI: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6800509
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The role of swarming sites for maintaining gene flow in the brown long-eared bat (Plecotus auritus)

Abstract: Bat-swarming sites where thousands of individuals meet in late summer were recently proposed as 'hot spots' for gene flow among populations. If, due to female philopatry, nursery colonies are genetically differentiated, and if males and females of different colonies meet at swarming sites, then we would expect lower differentiation of maternally inherited genetic markers among swarming sites and higher genetic diversity within. To test these predictions, we compared genetic variance from three swarming sites t… Show more

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“…All males should seek to secure as many matings as possible and should, therefore, go to swarming sites as often as possible. Recent work (Kerth et al 2003;Kerth & Morf 2004;Veith et al 2004) has highlighted the importance of swarming as a mating strategy in many temperate bats. In our study population most successful matings appear to occur before swarming, unless the dominant males successfully out-compete an overwhelming number of rivals at swarming sites.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…All males should seek to secure as many matings as possible and should, therefore, go to swarming sites as often as possible. Recent work (Kerth et al 2003;Kerth & Morf 2004;Veith et al 2004) has highlighted the importance of swarming as a mating strategy in many temperate bats. In our study population most successful matings appear to occur before swarming, unless the dominant males successfully out-compete an overwhelming number of rivals at swarming sites.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In addition, interisland gene flow can occur in ways other than individuals immigrating to an island and reproducing there. Among European colonies of M. bechsteinii, M. nattereri, and P. auritus, for example, much of the gene flow appears to occur via mating swarms, which are sites (located 10-500 km from the maternal colonies) where the sexes meet and copulate during the late summer/fall (Kerth et al 2003;Veith et al 2004;Rivers et al 2005). In maternal colonies of the endangered M. bechsteinii, female philopatry is almost complete (i.e., females stay in their natal colonies to rear pups), and thus new colony formation apparently is very rare (Kerth et al 2002a).…”
Section: Conservation Implicationsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Sin embargo los sitios "swarming" tienen igual o más importancia durante el final del verano y otoño, que los lugares de cría para una gran variedad de especies de quirópteros (Parsons et al, 2003a;Gottfried, 2009). Otra es que por las funciones de apareamiento y de flujo genético que los sitios "swarming" cumplen; representan localidades de extrema importancia en el ciclo biológico de las especies (Fenton, 1969;Kerth et al, 2003;Parsons et al, 2003a;Parsons et al, 2003b;Parsons & Jones, 2003;Veith et al, 2004;Rivers et al, 2005;Furmankiewicz & Altringham, 2007). El mantenimiento de la variabilidad genética en las poblaciones, está directamente vinculado al incremento de la supervivencia de los individuos y sus poblaciones (Rossiter et al, 2001), siendo más importante para especies raras como el B. barbastellus (Parsons et al, 2003b;Rivers et al, 2006;Glover & Altringham, 2008;Gottfried, 2008;Gottfried, 2009) y que tienen una consecuencia importante para la supervivencia de las poblaciones locales o incluso regionales (Parsons et al, 2003b).…”
Section: Implicaciones Y Recomendaciones De Conservaciónunclassified
“…Otra razón es que cada individuo es fiel a un número muy restringido de sitos "swarming" y cada uno de estos sitios canaliza los individuos de un área geográfica; así que, cada sitio "swarming" es importante para un determinado territorio y para cada individuo que lo frecuente (Parsons & Jones, 2003;Rivers et al, 2006). Además de ser utilizado por un gran número de especies con estatus de conservación desfavorable (Parsons et al, 2003b;Rivers et al, 2005,) funcionan como "hot spot" a nivel regional (Veith et al, 2004;Nagy & Postawa, 2011), por eso estos sitios deberían ser designados Áreas de Conservación Especial (Parsons et al, 2003b;Rivers et al, 2006;Glover & Altringham, 2008).…”
Section: Implicaciones Y Recomendaciones De Conservaciónunclassified
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