The Long and Short of It: Branch Lengths and the Problem of Placing the New Zealand Short-Tailed Bat, Mystacina

1999/11/01 by Martyn Kennedy, Adrian M. Paterson, Juan Carlos Morales +4 · 1 voice · 1 citation
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Environmental Science · #Bat Biology and Ecology Studies #Species Distribution and Climate Change #Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

paper · doi:10.1006/mpev.1999.0660

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Discussions

• Mystacina only had two species before one went extinct in 1965 but their placement in the bat tree of life is a difficult problem for biologists, even with the use of DNA doi.org/10.1006/mpev... #2026 [bsky, 15 points, 1 comments]