Bat biology, genomes, and the Bat1K project: to generate chromosome-level genomes for all living bat species

EC Teeling, SC Vernes, LM Dávalos… - Annual review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Bats are unique among mammals, possessing some of the rarest mammalian adaptations,
including true self-powered flight, laryngeal echolocation, exceptional longevity, unique …

Evolution of angiosperm seed disperser mutualisms: the timing of origins and their consequences for coevolutionary interactions between angiosperms and frugivores

O Eriksson - Biological Reviews, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The origins of interactions between angiosperms and fruit‐eating seed dispersers have
attracted much attention following a seminal paper on this topic by T iffney (1984). This …

Bats (Chiroptera: Noctilionoidea) challenge a recent origin of extant neotropical diversity

D Rojas, OM Warsi, LM Dávalos - Systematic biology, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The mechanisms underlying the high extant biodiversity in the Neotropics have been
controversial since the 19th century. Support for the influence of period-specific changes on …

Bat systematics in the light of unconstrained analyses of a comprehensive molecular supermatrix

LI Amador, RL Moyers Arevalo, FC Almeida… - Journal of Mammalian …, 2018 - Springer
Bats (Chiroptera) represent the largest diversification of extant mammals after rodents. Here
we report the results of a large-scale phylogeny of bats based on unconstrained searches …

Microbiome analysis among bats describes influences of host phylogeny, life history, physiology and geography

CD Phillips, G Phelan, SE Dowd… - Molecular …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Metagenomic methods provide an experimental approach to inform the relationships
between hosts and their microbial inhabitants. Previous studies have provided the …

Gene losses in the common vampire bat illuminate molecular adaptations to blood feeding

M Blumer, T Brown, MB Freitas, AL Destro… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Vampire bats are the only mammals that feed exclusively on blood. To uncover genomic
changes associated with this dietary adaptation, we generated a haplotype-resolved …

Higher level classification of phyllostomid bats with a summary of DNA synapomorphies

RJ Baker, S Solari, A Cirranello… - Acta …, 2016 - ingentaconnect.com
The family Phyllostomidae is recognized as representing the most extensive radiation
known in any mammalian family. Creating a Linnaean classification for this clade has been …

Evolutionary patterns and processes in the radiation of phyllostomid bats

LR Monteiro, MR Nogueira - BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2011 - Springer
Background The phyllostomid bats present the most extensive ecological and phenotypic
radiation known among mammal families. This group is an important model system for …

When did plants become important to leaf‐nosed bats? Diversification of feeding habits in the family Phyllostomidae

D Rojas, A Vale, V Ferrero, L Navarro - Molecular ecology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
A great proportion of bats of the New World family Phyllostomidae feed on fruit, nectar and
pollen, and many of them present adaptations to feed also on insects and small vertebrates …

Integrating incomplete fossils by isolating conflicting signal in saturated and non-independent morphological characters

LM Dávalos, PM Velazco, OM Warsi… - Systematic …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Morphological characters are indispensable in phylogenetic analyses for understanding the
pattern, process, and tempo of evolution. If characters are independent and free of …