Phylogenetic relationships of fruit bats(Family:Pteropodidae) in Malaysia inferred from partial mtDNA Cytochrome b gene

The taxonomic relationships of the Old World fruit bat family, Pteropodinae, by Anderson
(1912) using morphological characters have been challenged by several authors. Previous
studies using mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) found major disagreement between morphology
and molecular data in inferring the phylogeny of the fruit bats. Fifty-eight samples from 14
species of the Malaysian fruit bats (Family: Pteropodidae) was used in this study to examine
on the phylogenogenetic relationship between species of fruit bats using 395 base pairs of
partial mtDNA cytochrome b (cyt b) gene. Our phylogenetic analysis using neighbour-joining
and maximum parsimony methods failed to support the monophyly of both the rousettine and
cynopterine groups of the Subfamily Pteropodinae.