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JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY
卷 95, 期 3, 页码 587-596出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1644/13-MAMM-A-190
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bats; diet; insect pests; molecular scatology; Mormoopidae; Mormoops; Pteronotus; Puerto Rico
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- American Museum of Natural History through Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Fund
- Eastern Michigan University through a Faculty Research Fellowship
Molecular approaches, such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR), allow biologists to analyze the diet of mammals in more detail than conventional techniques, by targeting DNA of prey found within feces. Diets of the Antillean ghost-faced bat (Mormoops blainvillei) and sooty mustached bat (Pteronotus quadridens) on Puerto Rico were determined via PCR, and resulting sequences of DNA were compared with those in the Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD). We identified 21 species consumed by M. blainvillei and 4 by P. quadridens, although an additional 12 sequences were identified to genus or family. Seven taxa in the diet of these bats were of agricultural or human-health concern. All sequences, including those that did not match a reference insect in BOLD, were collapsed into molecular operational taxonomic units (MOTUs) and used to demonstrate that dietary breadth (Levin's measure) of M. blainvillei was 18% less than that of P. quadridens and that dietary overlap (Schoener's index) between species was only 11.6% at the level of species. Use of MOTUs showed significantly greater differences in dietary breadth and less dietary overlap between these insular endemics than previous analyses based on standard fecal analysis to the level of order.
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