Publications

cryptic mammalian species: a new species of whiskered bat (myotis alcathoe n. sp.) in europe.	the analysis of morphological, behavioural and genetic characters of whiskered bats revealed a new european bat species within the family vespertilionidae. we describe the morphology, karyology, genetic similarity, ecology and distribution of myotis alcathoe n. sp. it closely resembles myotis mystacinus, myotis brandtii and myotis ikonnikovi in morphology, but all four species show clear genetic differences in two mitochondrial genes (nd1 and 12s rrna). myotis alcathoe n. sp. is the smallest spe ...	2001	11482435
checklist of host associations of european bat flies (diptera: nycteribiidae, streblidae).	bat flies are obligate blood-sucking ectoparasites of bats. they are divided into two families: nycteribiidae and streblidae. europe has 17 species of bat flies and 45 species of bats (mammalia: chiroptera). this checklist is based on both published records and our own field data and provides updated information on all associations between bat flies and their hosts in europe. the host-parasite association between basilia italica theodor and plecotus auritus (linnaeus) is reported for the first t ...	2016	27988583
hidden in our pockets: building of a dna barcode library unveils the first record of myotis alcathoe for portugal.	the advent and boom of dna barcoding technologies have provided a powerful tool for the fields of ecology and systematics. here, we present the inbio barcoding initiative database: portuguese bats (chiroptera) dataset containing dna sequences of 63 specimens representing the 25 bat species currently known for continental portugal. for that, we sequenced tissues samples obtained in a vast array of projects spanning the last two decades.	2020	32821211