Phylogeography of the large<i>Myotis</i>bats (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in Europe, Asia Minor, and Transcaucasia
Journal: Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
Year: 2012

The large Myotis complex in continental Europe, Asia Minor, and Transcaucasia comprises two sibling bat species, the greater mouse-eared bat, Myotis myotis, and the lesser mouse-eared bat, Myotis blythii, also referred to as Myotis oxygnathus. Here, we investigate the phylogeography of these bats using two mitochondrial markers: the second hypervariable domain of the control region (HVII) and a fragment of the cytochrome b gene (cyt b). The HVII haplotypes formed six distinct haplogroups associa