and U. subfloridana, which has a predominantly asexual reproduction with symbiotic propagules, represent a typical species pair, as they share many morphological characters but differ by the characters associated with their dissimilar dispersal strategies (Articus et al., 2002; Randlane et al., 2009).
While three male non-tegminal characters showed variation among far allopatric, near allopatric, and sympatric G. fultoni populations, female morphological characters did not differ among these populations.
Table 1 shows a comparison of key morphological characters from different Paulinella species.
We therefore mapped our female morphological characters onto two different phylogenetic hypotheses.
The results of these phylogenetic analyses corroborate earlier hypotheses of infra-Leptoceridae relationships based on morphological characters [ 6, 12, 15], but differ in some interesting and important aspects.
A further disadvantage of using inter-species crosses to map A. majus mutations is that A. majus and A. molle differ in many morphological characters, including plant and organ size.
The two Voalavo species are closely related and quite similar, but differ in various subtle morphological characters (mainly measurements) and by 10% in the sequence of the mitochondrial gene cytochrome b.
With the exception of two pairs of species that are identical at the character matrix level, every other species has a unique combination of morphological characters (Table 2) and even the "identical" species differ with regard to morphological differences in characters that have continuous variation across the family.
The two species differ in a number of morphological characters in addition to size.
Although it also differs from other whiskered bats by morphological characters, Myotis alcathoe is most clearly distinct in its genetics, including DNA sequences and the location of the nucleolus organizer regions.
