Karen E. Sears

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• Cochlea development shapes bat sensory system evolution
• Disentangling mechanical and sensory modules in the radiation of Noctilionoid bats
• Ecological constraints on highly evolvable olfactory receptor genes and morphology in neotropical bats
• Find the Food First: An Omnivorous Sensory Morphotype Predates Biomechanical Specialization for Plant Based Diets in Phyllostomid Bats
• Foraging shifts and visual preadaptation in ecologically diverse bats
• Evaluating the performance of targeted sequence capture, RNA-Seq, and degenerate-primer PCR cloning for sequencing the largest mammalian multigene family
• Morphological Diversification under High Integration in a Hyper Diverse Mammal Clade
• Multifactorial processes underlie parallel opsin loss in neotropical bats
• Assessing Soft-Tissue Shrinkage Estimates in Museum Specimens Imaged With Diffusible Iodine-based Contrast-Enhanced Computed Tomography (diceCT)
• Trpc2 pseudogenization dynamics in bats reveal ancestral vomeronasal signaling, then pervasive loss