| phylogeography of pipistrelle-like bats within the canary islands, based on mtdna sequences. | evolution of three canary island vespertilionid bat species, pipistrellus kuhlii, pipistrellus maderensis, and hypsugo savii was studied by comparison of approximately 1 kbp of mtdna (from cytochrome b and 16s rrna genes) between islands. mtdna reveals that both p. kuhlii and p. maderensis exist in sympatry on tenerife (and possibly other islands). their morphological similarity explains why their co-occurrence had not been detected previously. levels of sequence divergence are quite low within ... | 2003 | 12470938 |