Histomorphology of glans penis and baculum of molossids and vespertilionids bats: a comparative approach (Chiroptera, Mammalia)

• Grant number: 12/24288-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: May 01, 2013
• End date: February 28, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Zoology - Taxonomy of Recent Groups
• Principal Investigator: Eliana Morielle Versute
• Grantee: Manuela Tosi Comelis Martins
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas (IBILCE). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de São José do Rio Preto. São José do Rio Preto , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The family Molossidae is the 3th largest family of bats in America and is distributed in tropical and temperate areas of the Eastern and Western hemispheres, and despite this, detailed information about the different taxa of the family is scarce, making it difficult interpretations and formulations of evolutionary relationship between taxa. Most proposed phylogenies based on characters from external and cranial morphology and most recently, molecular data are still inconsistent. The objective of this project is therefore to assess aspects of morphological variation with emphasis on the penis glans and the baculum, characterizing them histologically and morphologically, increasing the information about these structures in nine taxa of molossids (Eumops auripendulus, E. glaucinus , E. perotis, Cynomops abrasus, C. planirostris, molossus, M. rufus, and Neoplatymops matogrossensis Molossops temminckii) and possibly facilitating the formulation of phylogenetic relationships among them, since these features are relevant diagnostic characters (taxonomic) which can be used in evolutionary interpretations. (AU)

Scientific publications

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COMELIS, MANUELA T.; BUENO, LARISSA M.; GOES, REJANE M.; TABOGA, S. R.; MORIELLE-VERSUTE, ELIANA. Morphological and histological characters of penile organization in eleven species of molossid bats. ZOOLOGY, v. 127, p. 70-83, APR 2018. (15/06923-9, 13/11859-2, 09/16181-9, 12/24288-0)

JUBILATO, FERNANDA C.; COMELIS, MANUELA T.; BUENO, LARISSA M.; TABOGA, SEBASTIAO R.; GOES, REJANE M.; MORIELLE-VERSUTE, ELIANA. Histomorphology of the glans penis in Vespertilionidae and Phyllostomidae species (Chiroptera, Mammalia). Journal of Morphology, v. 280, n. 12, p. 1759-1776, DEC 2019. (13/11859-2, 15/06923-9, 12/24288-0)

COMELIS, MANUELA T.; BUENO, LARISSA M.; GOES, REJANE M.; MORIELLE-VERSUTE, ELIANA. Penile histomorphology of the neotropical bat Eptesicus furinalis (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). ZOOLOGISCHER ANZEIGER, v. 258, p. 92-98, 2015. (13/11859-2, 09/16181-9, 12/24288-0)

Academic Publications

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MARTINS, Manuela Tosi Comelis. Histomorfologia da glande peniana e do báculo de morcegos molossideos e vespertilionideos: uma abordagem comparativa (Chiroptera, Mammalia). 2015. Master's Dissertation - Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Instituto de Biociências Letras e Ciências Exatas. São José do Rio Preto São José do Rio Preto.