What is it about?
Wing swabs can be used to identify bats to species using DNA analysis techniques. This is particularly useful when the bats are hard to identify visually .
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Why is it important?
Bat species identification is important to determine what populations of bats are in an area, and whether those populations are increasing or declining.
Perspectives
As DNA analysis becomes more widely used, species identification will be considered incomplete without DNA analysis.
Beryl Zaitlin
Zaitlin Geoconsulting Ltd.
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This page is a summary of: An alternative minimally invasive technique for genetic sampling of bats: Wing swabs yield species identification, Wildlife Society Bulletin, September 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/wsb.803.
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