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Relationships within phylogeny of vespertilionid bats (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae)
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Bat family Vespertilionidae is distributed nearly worldwide, and it belongs among the most species-rich groups of mammals in the world. Its phylogeny is as yet not completely resolved. Zoologické dny Brno 2013, Sborník abstraktů z konference 7.-8. února 2013 57 To study phylogenetic relationships of vespertilionid bats, we reconstructed a phylogeny that included 252 species of family Vespertilionidae, Cistugidae and Miniopteridae from a concatenated dataset with 13 mitochondrial and nuclear loci and total alignment length of 10091 base-pairs. The maximum likelihood phylogeny resolved multiple enigmatic relationships between tribes, genera and at the species level. Families Cistugidae and Miniopteridae formed sister groups clearly separated from Vespertilionidae. Vespertilionidae included four subfamilies – Kerivoulinae, Murininae (with unresolved position of Eudiscopus), Myotinae and Vespertilioninae. We found strong support for monophyly of Scotophilini, Lasiurini, Antrozoini and Perimyotine group. Tribus Plecotini was not supported, which is consistent with previous published studies. There was a strong support in the tree for two lineages previously recognized in tribus Nycticeiini, one including Nycticeius, Glauconycteris, Lasionycteris and Arielulus, and the second one including Eptesicus, Histiotus, Scotomanes and Ia, but the support was weak for the whole tribus. The lineage named Hypsugine group was strongly supported. The tribus Vespertilionini was not supported possibly due to unclear branching of the genera Vespertilio, Tylonycteris and the species Eptesicus dimissus in contrast with the supported Pipistrellus lineage. Our results showed that the multilocus approach reconstructed a robust phylogeny with good resolution in deep nodes. However, rapid divergence events within some genera pose challenges for future systematics research. |