caa a22 4500 44585779X CHVBK 20180317145433.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10592-011-0196-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10592-011-0196-y Genetic analysis of populations of the threatened bat Pteropus mariannus [Elektronische Daten] [Veronica Brown, Anne Brooke, James Fordyce, Gary McCracken] The Mariana flying fox (Pteropus mariannus) has suffered substantial decline in recent years. Taxonomic classification of P. mariannus has been inconsistent, with subspecies designations based mainly on geography and morphological variation within small sample sizes. In this study, we examine relationships of P. mariannus across two island groups in the western Pacific Ocean. Microsatellite data and mitochondrial sequences, from D-loop, cytochrome oxidase I, and cytochrome b, suggest that the population on the islands of Palau is genetically isolated from the populations in the Mariana Islands. Our data confirm that the bats of Palau should be considered a separate conservation unit from the bats of the Mariana Islands, supporting the current subspecies separation of these two populations. Our results also suggest that there is gene flow among islands within the Mariana archipelago and that the bats on these islands, currently classified as two subspecies, should be managed as a single conservation unit, although we refrain from suggesting taxonomic revisions until genetic and morphological data become available from geographically intermediate populations. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2011 Pteropus marianus nationallicence Flying fox nationallicence Phylogeny nationallicence Mariana Islands nationallicence Palau nationallicence Brown Veronica Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The University of Tennessee, 569 Dabney Hall, 1416 Circle Dr, 37996, Knoxville, TN, USA aut Brooke Anne US Navy, Guam, NAVFAC Marianas, PSC 455, Box 195, FPO AP, 96540-2937, Santa Rita, GU, USA aut Fordyce James Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The University of Tennessee, 569 Dabney Hall, 1416 Circle Dr, 37996, Knoxville, TN, USA aut McCracken Gary Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The University of Tennessee, 569 Dabney Hall, 1416 Circle Dr, 37996, Knoxville, TN, USA aut Conservation Genetics Springer Netherlands 12/4(2011-08-01), 933-941 1566-0621 12:4<933 2011 12 10592 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-011-0196-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-011-0196-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Brown Veronica Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The University of Tennessee, 569 Dabney Hall, 1416 Circle Dr, 37996, Knoxville, TN, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Brooke Anne US Navy, Guam, NAVFAC Marianas, PSC 455, Box 195, FPO AP, 96540-2937, Santa Rita, GU, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fordyce James Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The University of Tennessee, 569 Dabney Hall, 1416 Circle Dr, 37996, Knoxville, TN, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- McCracken Gary Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The University of Tennessee, 569 Dabney Hall, 1416 Circle Dr, 37996, Knoxville, TN, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Conservation Genetics Springer Netherlands 12/4(2011-08-01), 933-941 1566-0621 12:4<933 2011 12 10592 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer