contrasting genetic structure in two co-distributed species of old world fruit bat对比两个co-distributed物种遗传结构的旧世界水果蝙蝠.pdfVIP

Contrasting Genetic Structure in Two Co-Distributed Species of Old World Fruit Bat 1 2 3 1,4 5 Jinping Chen , Stephen J. Rossiter *, Jonathan R. Flanders , Yanhong Sun , Panyu Hua , Cassandra 6 4 7 5 Miller-Butterworth , Xusheng Liu , Koilmani E. Rajan , Shuyi Zhang * 1 Guangdong Entomological Institute, Guangzhou, China, 2 School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom, 3 School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, 4 Huazhong Normal University, Wuhan, China, 5 School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, 6 Department of Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, 7 Department of Animal Science, School of Life Sciences, Bharathidasan University, Tamil Nadu, India Abstract 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 gene flow, we used mtDNA and nuclear loci to characterize population genetic subdivision and phylogeographic histories in both species sampled from China, Vietnam and India. Our analyses from R. leschenaulti using both types of marker revealed little evidence of genetic structure across the study region. On the other hand, C. sphinx showed significant gen