Evolutionary history of bats : fossils, molecules, and morphology /

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Advances in morphological and molecular methods continue to uncover new information on the origin and evolution of bats. Presenting some of the most remarkable discoveries and research involving living and fossil bats, this book explores their evolutionary history from a range of perspectives. Phylo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gunnell, Gregg F., Simmons, Nancy B.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Colección:Cambridge studies in morphology and molecules.
Temas:
Bats > Evolution.
Bats, Fossil.
Chauves-souris > Évolution.
Chauves-souris fossiles.
NATURE > Animals > Mammals.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Zoology > Mammals.
Bats > Evolution
Bats, Fossil
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Phylogenies, fossils and functional genes : the evolution of echolocation in bats / Emma C. Teeling, Serena Dool and Mark Springer
  • Systematics and paleobiogeography of early bats / Thierry Smith [and others]
  • Shoulder joint and inner ear of Tachypteron franzeni, an emballonurid bat from the Middle Eocene of Messel / Jörg Habersetzer [and others]
  • Evolutionary history of the neotropical Chiroptera : the fossil record / Gary S. Morgan and Nicholas J. Czaplewski
  • New basal noctilionoid bats (Mammalia, Chiroptera) from the Oligocene of subtropical North America / Nicholas J. Czaplewski and Gary S. Morgan
  • Necromantis Weithofer, 1887, large carnivorous middle and late Eocene bats from the French Quercy Phosphorites : new data and unresolved relationships / Suzanne Hand, Bernard Sigé and Elodie Maitre
  • African Vespertilionoidea (Chiroptera) and the antiquity of Myotinae / Gregg F. Gunnell, Thomas P. Eiting and Elwyn L. Simons
  • Evolutionary and ecological correlates of population genetic structure in bats / Kevin J. Olival
  • A bird? A plane? No, it's a bat : an introduction to the biomechanics of bat flight / Sharon M. Swartz [and others]
  • Toward an integrative theory on the origin of bat flight / Norberto P. Giannini
  • Molecular timescale of diversification of feeding strategy and morphology in New World leaf-nosed bats (Phyllostomidae) : a phylogenetic perspective / Robert J. Baker [and others]
  • Why tribosphenic? : on variation and constraint in developmental dynamics of chiropteran molars / Ivan Horáček and František Špoutil
  • Necromantodonty, the primitive condition of lower molars among bats / Bernard Sigé, Elodie Maitre and Suzanne Hand
  • Echolocation, evo-devo and the evolution of bat crania / Scott C. Pedersen and Douglas W. Timm
  • Vertebral fusion in bats : phylogenetic patterns and functional relationships / Dawn J. Larkey, Shannon L. Datwyler and Winston C. Lancaster
  • Early evolution of body size in bats / Norberto P. Giannini [and others].

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