Ocean Channel Marks Genetic Rift in Brazilian Free-Tailed Bats (IMAGE)

Florida Museum of Natural History

Ocean Channel Marks Genetic Rift in Brazilian Free-Tailed Bats

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The dashed line marks the Northwest and Northeast Providence Channels, which divide populations of free-tailed bats that last shared an ancestor hundreds of thousands of years ago. Bats were collected from locations marked with white dots.

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Speer et al. in Ecology and Evolution

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