Located at the crossroad of the Palearctic, Saharo-Arabian, and Oriental zoogeographic
realms, and with its great environmental diversity, Iran harbors a high complexity and …

Bats (Chiroptera) represent the largest diversification of extant mammals after rodents. Here
we report the results of a large-scale phylogeny of bats based on unconstrained searches …

Abstract The Korean Peninsula and its associated Pacific islands have a distinctive, yet
poorly studied mammalian fauna. Korea was a land of invasions and wars for many …

Vespertilionidae (class Mammalia) constitutes the largest family of bats, with~ 500 described
species. Nonetheless, the systematic relationships within this family are poorly known …

Eptesicus Rafinesque, 1820 is widely distributed in the Old and New World (26 species),
and Histiotus Gervais, 1856 is a South American endemic (11 species). Molecular …

Despite many studies illustrating the perils of utilising mitochondrial DNA in phylogenetic
studies, it remains one of the most widely used genetic markers for this purpose. Over the …

White-nose syndrome is a fungal disease killing bats in eastern North America, but disease
is not seen in European bats and is less severe in some North American species. We show …

Because of the high risk of going unnoticed, cryptic species represent a major challenge to
biodiversity assessments, and this is particularly true for taxa that include many such …

In recent years, many cryptic species of bats have been discovered thanks to the application
of molecular techniques. The several long-eared bat species (genus Plecotus) occurring in …

We present an updated checklist of Brazilian bats, commenting on the endemic and
threatened status of the species listed and providing information on recent taxonomic and …