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Ocean channel in Bahamas marks genetic divide in Brazilian free-tailed bats
Description: Brazilian free-tailed bats are expert flyers, capable of migrating hundreds of miles and regularly traveling more than 30 miles a night. But they pull up short at a narrow ocean channel that cuts across the Bahamas, dividing bat populations that last shared an ancestor hundreds of thousands of years ago. A new study uncovers a dramatic and unexpected genetic rift between populations of Tadarida brasiliensis on either side of the Northwest and Northeast Providence Channels, about 35 miles across at their most narrow point. [Source: Florida Museum (University of Florida)]
URL: https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/ocean-channel-in-bahamas-marks-genetic-divide-in-brazilian-free-tailed-bats/
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Source: Florida Museum (University of Florida)
Publish Date: 8/18/2017
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