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Evolutionary History of Bats : Fossils, Molecules and Morphology.
Explores the rich evolutionary history of bats from multiple perspectives, presenting some of the most remarkable discoveries involving fossil bats.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Cambridge Studies in Morphology and Molecules: New Paradigms in Evolutionary Bio.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Evolutionary History of Bats: Fossils, Molecules and Morphology; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; 1: Phylogenies, fossils and functional genes: the evolution of echolocation in bats; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Phylogenetic controversies; 1.3 Phylogenetic analysis; 1.3.1 Molecular data sets; 1.3.2 Phylogenetic methods; 1.3.3 Phylogenetic results; 1.4 Implications for echolocation; 1.5 Echolocation; 1.5.1 Echolocation and the fossil record; 1.5.2 Eocene fossils and echolocation; 1.6 Echolocation genes; 1.6.1 Functional genes and echolocation.
- 1.6.2 Vocalization and hearing1.6.3 Deafness genes; 1.6.4 Where to look next for echolocation genes?; 1.7 Acknowledgments; 1.8 REFERENCES; 2: Systematics and paleobiogeography of early bats; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Acronyms for museum collections; 2.3 Diversity and systematics of early bats; 2.3.1 Order Chiroptera Blumenbach, 1779; 2.3.2 Family Onychonycteridae Simmons et al., 2008; 2.3.3 Family Icaronycteridae Jepsen, 1966; 2.3.4 Family Archaeonycteridae Revilliod, 1917; 2.3.5 Family Palaeochiropterygidae Revilliod, 1917; 2.3.6 Family Palaeochiropterygidae?
- 2.3.7 Family Hassianycteridae Habersetzer and Storch, 19872.3.8 Family Mixopterygidae Maitre et al., 2008; 2.3.9 Family Tanzanycteridae Gunnell et al., 2003; 2.3.10 Family?Philisidae Sigé, 1985; 2.3.11 Family Emballonuridae Gervais, 1855; 2.3.12 Family Hipposideridae, in Flower and Lydekker, 1891; 2.3.13 Family indeterminate; 2.3.14 Chiroptera incertae sedis; 2.3.15 Other early bats; 2.4 Discussion; 2.5 Acknowledgments; 2.6 REFERENCES; 3: Shoulder joint and inner ear of Tachypteron franzeni, an emballonurid bat from the Middle Eocene of Messel; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Material and methods.
- 3.2.1 Synopsis of different X-ray and CT techniques for fossils3.3 Results; 3.3.1 Shoulder joint; 3.3.2 Inner ear; 3.4 Comparison of imaging methods; 3.5 Discussion and conclusions; 3.6 Tachypteron franzeni summary; 3.7 Acknowledgments; 3.8 REFERENCES; 4: Evolutionary history of the Neotropical Chiroptera: the fossil record; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Materials and methods; 4.3 North American Tertiary bat faunas; 4.4.1 Western North America; 4.4.2 Florida; 4.5 South American Tertiary bat faunas; 4.6 Pleistocene bat records; 4.6.1 Emballonuridae; 4.6.2 Phyllostomidae; 4.6.3 Mormoopidae.
- 4.6.4 Furipteridae and Noctilionidae4.6.5 Natalidae; 4.6.6 Molossidae; 4.6.7 Vespertilionidae; 4.7 Discussion; 4.7.1 Origins of the Neotropical chiropteran fauna; 4.7.2 New World bats and the Great American Biotic Interchange; 4.8 Final comments and future research; 4.9 Acknowledgments; 4.10 REFERENCES; 5: New basal noctilionoid bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from the Oligocene of subtropical North America; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Fossil localities; 5.3 Methods; 5.4 Systematic paleontology; 5.5 Discussion; 5.6 Phylogenetic relationships; 5.7 Biogeography; 5.8 Acknowledgments; Appendix 5.1.