Considering adaptive genetic variation in climate change vulnerability assessment reduces species range loss projections

O Razgour, B Forester, JB Taggart… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Local adaptations can determine the potential of populations to respond to environmental
changes, yet adaptive genetic variation is commonly ignored in models forecasting species …

Origin of British and Irish mammals: disparate post-glacial colonisation and species introductions

WI Montgomery, J Provan, AM McCabe… - Quaternary Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
Global climate changes during the Quaternary reveal much about broader evolutionary
effects of environmental change. Detailed regional studies reveal how evolutionary lineages …

Roots of the taxonomic impediment: Is the “integrativeness” a remedy?

MV Vinarski - Integrative Zoology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The use of the “integrative approach” for classification of organisms since its formal
establishment in 2005 has become a recurrent theme of zoosystematics. A bibliometric …

[PDF][PDF] Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) of the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. Part 10. Bat fauna of Iran

P Benda, K Faizolâhi, M Andreas, J Obuch… - Acta Societatis …, 2012 - nm.cz
A complete list of bat records available from Iran was compiled from literature and from new
records, based on field studies and examination of museum specimens. The record review …

Molecular phylogenetic reconstructions identify East Asia as the cradle for the evolution of the cosmopolitan genus Myotis (Mammalia, Chiroptera)

M Ruedi, B Stadelmann, Y Gager, EJP Douzery… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2013 - Elsevier
Sequences of the mitochondrial cytochrome b (1140 bp) and nuclear Rag 2 (1148 bp)
genes were used to assess the evolutionary history of the cosmopolitan bat genus Myotis …

How to accurately delineate morphologically conserved taxa and diagnose their phenotypic disparities: species delimitation in cryptic Rhinolophidae (Chiroptera)

A Chornelia, J Lu, AC Hughes - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Systematics and taxonomy are the backbone of all components of biology and ecology, yet
cryptic species present a major challenge for accurate species identification. This is …

How and why overcome the impediments to resolution: lessons from rhinolophid and hipposiderid bats

NM Foley, VD Thong, P Soisook… - Molecular Biology …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The phylogenetic and taxonomic relationships among the Old World leaf-nosed bats
(Hipposideridae) and the closely related horseshoe bats (Rhinolophidae) remain …

Mammals of Italy: an annotated checklist

A Loy, G Aloise, L Ancillotto, FM Angelici, S Bertolino… - Hystrix, 2019 - iris.uniroma1.it
Checklists represent a basic tool for conservation and management of regional faunas.
However, our knowledge on species composition in a territory changes over time due to …

Nuclear introns outperform mitochondrial DNA in inter-specific phylogenetic reconstruction: lessons from horseshoe bats (Rhinolophidae: Chiroptera)

SE Dool, SJ Puechmaille, NM Foley, B Allegrini… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2016 - Elsevier
Despite many studies illustrating the perils of utilising mitochondrial DNA in phylogenetic
studies, it remains one of the most widely used genetic markers for this purpose. Over the …

Uncovering cryptic diversity and refugial persistence among small mammal lineages across the Eastern Afromontane biodiversity hotspot

TC Demos, JCK Peterhans, B Agwanda… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The Eastern Afromontane region of Africa is characterized by striking levels of
endemism and species richness accompanied by significant conservation threat, a pattern …