Chromosomal homologies of the generaVespertilio, PlecotusandBarbastella(Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae)

✍ Scribed by M. Volleth

• Book ID: 104632860
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1985
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 453 KB
• Volume: 66
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-6707
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00128044

✦ Synopsis

Q-banding (and partly G-banding) patterns of chromosomes were studied in three species of vespertilionid bats: Vespertilio murinus, Plecotus auritus and Barbastella barbastellus. The chromosomes of these species were identified and compared on the basis of the G-band diagram of Bickham (Cytologia 44, 1979) for the genus Myotis. The additional metacentric chromosomes which Vespertilio shows as compared to Myotis, differ in arm arrangements from those found in Plecotus and Barbastella. Banding patterns of P. auritus and B. barbastellus are nearly identical. It is remarkable that the smallest metacentric chromosome of P. auritus differs clearly in its banding pattern from that of the American P. townsendi. The significance of the results obtained for the systematic position of these species is discussed.