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Contrasting genetic structure in two co-distributed species of old world fruit bat.
PloS one - 10 Nov 2010
Chen Jinping, Rossiter Stephen J, Flanders Jonathan R, Sun Yanhong, Hua Panyu, Miller-Butterworth Cassandra, Liu Xusheng, Rajan Koilmani E, Zhang Shuyi
Abstract excerpt
The fulvous fruit bat (Rousettus leschenaulti) and the greater short-nosed fruit bat (Cynopterus sphinx) are two abundant and widely co-distributed Old World fruit bats in Southeast and East Asia. The former species forms large colonies in caves while the latter roots in small groups in trees. To test whether these differences in social organization and roosting ecology are associated with contrasting patterns of...
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