Dept. Botany

Sep 3, 2024 | bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com | Finnish Museum |BatLab Finland |German Observatory |Dept. Botany

Samples for DNA extraction were obtained from existing collections of the authors. No bats were sampled as a part of the present study. Eleven out of the twelve species sampled represent the main lineages of Myotis from the Palearctic clade (M. bechsteinii, M. daubentonii, M. brandtii, M. mystacinus, M. dasycneme, M. frater, M. pequinus, M. petax, M. myotis, M. nattereri, M. ikonnikovi) with distributions ranging from the Iberian Peninsula to Japan (See Fig. 1).