Stephen J. Rossiter

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• Discovery and biological confirmation of a highly divergent Tacaribe virus in metatranscriptomic data from neotropical bats
• Cochlea development shapes bat sensory system evolution
• Disentangling mechanical and sensory modules in the radiation of Noctilionoid bats
• Reference-quality bat genomes illuminate adaptations to viral tolerance and disease resistance
• Ecological constraints on highly evolvable olfactory receptor genes and morphology in neotropical bats
• Nectar-Feeding Bats and Birds Show Parallel Molecular Adaptations in Sugar Metabolism Enzymes
• Find the Food First: An Omnivorous Sensory Morphotype Predates Biomechanical Specialization for Plant Based Diets in Phyllostomid Bats
• Dietary Diversification and Specialisation in New World Bats Facilitated by Early Molecular Evolution
• Adapt or Live: Adaptation, Convergent Evolution, and Plesiomorphy
• Foraging shifts and visual preadaptation in ecologically diverse bats
• Tissue Collection of Bats for-Omics Analyses and Primary Cell Culture
• Evaluating the performance of targeted sequence capture, RNA-Seq, and degenerate-primer PCR cloning for sequencing the largest mammalian multigene family
• Expressed vomeronasal type-1 receptors (V1rs) in bats uncover conserved sequences underlying social chemical signaling
• 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
• Molecular evolution of growth hormone and insulin-like growth factor 1 receptors in long-lived, small-bodied mammals