Three new species of yellow-shouldered bats discovered in museum collections
Tuesday, April 15, 2014 - 02:14
in Biology & Nature
Scientists have reconstructed the phylogeny and biological history for the Yellow-shouldered bats in the New World tropics, the region of the Earth surrounding the equator. In-depth analysis of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences uncovered three species new to science, each having previously been confused with another species.