phylogeography, Myotis daubentonii, western Palaearctic, genetic variability,glacial refugia

Many phylogeographic studies point at frequent presence of interglacial contact zones in the area of Central Europe. They usually originate from interglacial contact between lineages spreading from Mediterranean refugia, specifically from Pyrenean, Apennine and Balkan peninsula. Respective differentiations between sister species can be mirrored in population structures as well as they can correlate with trophic niche of these species. This process have also been observed in model organism for this study, one of the most numerous and distributed species of bat across the whole Europe, Daubenton's bat (Myotis daubentonii). Screening of mitochondrial and nuclear variability supports the idea, that in the Central Europe there can be observed a contact zone between populations with eastwest vicariance. Due to the higher mobility of bats, the character of contact zone is expected to be mosaic. This contribution shows the preliminary data mapping the variability of Daubenton's bat in the Czech Republic.