Publication at Faculty of Science, First Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2013
Abstract
The first molecular analysis of bats in Senegal revealed an exciting and unexpected diversity. A Czech-UK team identified a remarkable five cryptic species – groups of animals that appear, based on their external anatomy, to be a single species, but which are revealed through their genetics to be two or more distinct species that cannot interbreed.
Our study indicates that these new species diverged from their African cousins about three to four million years ago, during periods of changing climate.