Research article

Regionally and climatically restricted patterns of distribution of genetic diversity in a migratory bat species, Miniopterus schreibersii (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae)

Raşit Bilgin^1,^2,³^*, Ahmet Karataş⁴, Emrah Çoraman¹, Todd Disotell⁵ and Juan C Morales⁶

¹ Institute of Environmental Sciences, Boğaziçi University, Bebek 34342, Istanbul, Turkey

² Department of Ecology Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10027, USA

³ Center for Environmental Research and Conservation, Columbia University, 1200 Amsterdam Avenue, MC 5557, New York, NY, 10027, USA

⁴ Niğde Üniversitesi, Zübeyde Hanım Sağlık Yüksekokulu, 51100 Niğde, Turkey

⁵ Department of Anthropology, New York University, 25 Waverly Place, New York, NY 10003, USA

⁶ California State University, Stanislaus, One University Circle Turlock, CA 95382, USA

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:209 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-209

Published: 18 July 2008