Barbastellacaspica (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) in China: first record and complete mitochondrial genome.

ABSTRACT: The Caspian barbastelle, Barbastellacaspica, has spread widely in the Caspian region, Iran, and Central Asia; however, there is no evidence of its occurrence in China so far. During a field investigation, we collected a single specimen of B.caspica in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. At the same time, we obtained the free-flight echolocation calls of the bat. It omitted signals with start frequency of 33.15 ± 1.43 kHz, end frequency of 29.82 ± 0.40 kHz, frequency of most energy 31.48 ± 0.40 kHz, duration of 2.43 ± 0.24 ms, and a pulse interval of 246.57 ± 9.48 ms, which are probably type-I sounds emitted through the mouth. We also sequenced its entire mitochondrial genome to elucidate the genomic structure and its evolutionary relationships with closely related B

SUBMITTER: Wang ZY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11862895 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature