Not the Cryptic Species: Diversity of Hipposideros gentilis (Chiroptera: Hipposideridae) in Indochina

We present here the result of phylogenetic analysis for Vietnamese Hipposideros gentilis specimens using 7 nuclear genes and one mitochondrial gene. The complex distribution of divergent mitochondrial DNA lineages contradicts, at least in part, nuclear and morphological data. The most likely explana...

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Published in:Diversity (Basel) 2021-05, Vol.13 (5), p.218
Main Authors: Yuzefovich, Alexander P., Artyushin, Ilya V., Kruskop, Sergei V.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
cryptic diversity
Cryptic species
Deoxyribonucleic acid
Discordance
Divergence
DNA
Genes
Hipposideros
Hoplitis gentilis
Hybridization
Mitochondrial DNA
Morphology
Mountains
Museums
Natural history
nuclear genes
Phylogeny
Populations
roundleaf bats
Southeast Asia
Species diversity
Zoology
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Summary:We present here the result of phylogenetic analysis for Vietnamese Hipposideros gentilis specimens using 7 nuclear genes and one mitochondrial gene. The complex distribution of divergent mitochondrial DNA lineages contradicts, at least in part, nuclear and morphological data. The most likely explanation for this discordance is the historical hybridization between ancestral populations of H. gentilis and H. rotalis/H. khaokhouayensis. Our data supports the species status of H. gentilis, while only partially corroborating its previously proposed subspecies delimitation. We suggest the lowland forest populations from south Vietnam may correspond to their own subspecies. At the same time, the close phylogenetic relationship and morphological similarity of mountain forms from south and central Vietnam to the north Vietnamese populations make doubtful the subspecies status of H. gentilis sinensis.
ISSN:1424-2818
1424-2818
DOI:10.3390/d13050218