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• Chiropterans are a hotspot for horizontal transfer of DNA transposons in Mammalia
• Reference-quality bat genomes illuminate adaptations to viral tolerance and disease resistance
• The macroevolutionary impact of recent and imminent mammal extinctions on Madagascar
• Insights into mammalian TE diversity via the curation of 248 mammalian genome assemblies
• Actions needed to achieve ambitious objectives of net gains in natural ecosystem area by 2030 and beyond
• Setting ambitious international restoration objectives for terrestrial ecosystems for 2030 and beyond
• A solution to the challenges of interdisciplinary aggregation and use of specimen-level trait data
• Ecological constraints on highly evolvable olfactory receptor genes and morphology in neotropical bats
• Achieving global biodiversity goals by 2050 requires urgent and integrated actions
• Contradictory Phylogenetic Signals in the Laurasiatheria Anomaly Zone
• Colonial legacies influence biodiversity lessons: how past trade routes and power dynamics shape present-day scientific research and professional opportunities for Caribbean scientists
• Transformative actions on all drivers of biodiversity loss are urgently required to achieve the global goals by 2050
• Los fantasmas del desarrollo pasado. Deforestación y coca en la Amazonía occidental
• Los orígenes de la cocaína. Colonización y desarrollo fallido en los Andes amazónicos
• Using Case Studies to Improve the Critical Thinking Skills of Undergraduate Conservation Biology Students
• Forests, Coca, and Conflict: Grass Frontier Dynamics and Deforestation in the Amazon-Andes
• Nectar-Feeding Bats and Birds Show Parallel Molecular Adaptations in Sugar Metabolism Enzymes
• Fire-induced loss of the world’s most biodiverse forests in Latin America
• Fruit odorants mediate co-specialization in a multispecies plant–animal mutualism
• Drug pollution & sustainable development goals
• Diversity in olfactory receptor repertoires is associated with dietary specialization in a genus of frugivorous bat
• Large-Scale Genome Sampling Reveals Unique Immunity and Metabolic Adaptations in Bats
• Impacts of deforestation and degradation of forests and aquatic ecosystems on human well-being and health
• Bats and Viruses: Current Research and Future Trends
• Find the Food First: An Omnivorous Sensory Morphotype Predates Biomechanical Specialization for Plant Based Diets in Phyllostomid Bats
• No peace for the forest: Rapid, widespread land changes in the Andes-Amazon region following the Colombian civil war
• Where the wild things were: intrinsic and extrinsic extinction predictors in the world's most depleted mammal fauna
• Pervasive genomic signatures of local adaptation to altitude across highland specialist Andean hummingbird populations
• Dietary Diversification and Specialisation in New World Bats Facilitated by Early Molecular Evolution
• Phyllostomid Bats: A unique Mammalian Radiation
• Adapt or Live: Adaptation, Convergent Evolution, and Plesiomorphy
• Overview of This Book
• Phylogenetics and Historical Biogeography
• Handbook of the Mammals of the World. Volume 9: Bats
• Six reference-quality genomes reveal evolution of bat adaptations
• Molecular adaptation and convergent evolution of frugivory in Old World and neotropical fruit bats
• Pandemics’ historical role in creating inequality
• Foraging shifts and visual preadaptation in ecologically diverse bats
• The allometry of daily energy expenditure in hummingbirds: an energy budget approach
• Species tree disequilibrium positively misleads models of gene family evolution
• Curb land grabbing to save the Amazon
• 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
• Social Investment and Smallholder Coca Cultivation in Colombia
• 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
• Parallel molecular evolution in pathways, genes, and sites in high-elevation hummingbirds revealed by comparative transcriptomics
• Fires in protected areas reveal unforseen costs of Colombian peace
• Multifactorial processes underlie parallel opsin loss in neotropical bats
• Protocols for the Molecular Evolutionary Analysis of Membrane Protein Gene Duplicates
• A coalescent-based estimator of genetic drift, and acoustic divergence in the Pteronotus parnellii species complex
• Updated distribution maps for neotropical bats in the superfamily Noctilionoidea
• The Ghosts of Development Past: Deforestation and Coca in Western Amazonia
• The Origins of Cocaine: Colonization and Failed Development in the Amazon Andes
• Assessing Soft-Tissue Shrinkage Estimates in Museum Specimens Imaged With Diffusible Iodine-based Contrast-Enhanced Computed Tomography (diceCT)
• Opposition Support and the Experience of Violence Explain the Colombian Peace Referendum
• Strength of selection on the Trpc2 gene predicts accessory olfactory bulb form in bat vomeronasal evolution
• Identifying municipal risk factors for leftist guerrilla violence in Colombia
• Bat Biology, Genomes, and the Bat1K Project: to generate chromosome-level genomes for all living bat species
• Out of the Antilles: Fossil Phylogenies Support Reverse Colonization of Bats to South America
• Eating down the food chain: generalism is not an evolutionary dead end for herbivores
• Anthropogenic Extinction Dominates Holocene Declines of West Indian Mammals
• Spatial autocorrelation reduces model precision and predictive power in deforestation analyses
• Integrating remotely sensed fires for predicting deforestation for REDD+
• Trpc2 pseudogenization dynamics in bats reveal ancestral vomeronasal signaling, then pervasive loss
• Recent extinctions disturb path to equilibrium diversity in Caribbean bats
• Deforestation and Coca Cultivation Rooted in Twentieth-Century Development Projects
• The world drug problem and sustainable development
• Records of the cave-dwelling bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) of Hispaniola with an examination of seasonal variation in diversity
• Phylogeny and divergence times of lemurs inferred with recent and ancient fossils in the tree
• Bats (Chiroptera: Noctilionoidea) Challenge a Recent Origin of Extant Neotropical Diversity
• Bayesian hierarchical models suggest oldest known plant-visiting bat was omnivorous
• A Bayesian Spatial Model Highlights Distinct Dynamics in Deforestation from Coca and Pastures in an Andean Biodiversity Hotspot
• Amino acid transporter expansions associated with the evolution of obligate endosymbiosis in sap-feeding insects (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha)
• From the Field to the Lab: Best Practices for Field Preservation of Bat Specimens for Molecular Analyses
• Molecular evolution of growth hormone and insulin-like growth factor 1 receptors in long-lived, small-bodied mammals
• Sex-biased dispersal produces high error rates in mitochondrial distance-based and tree-based species delimitation
• Integrating Incomplete Fossils by Isolating Conflicting Signal in Saturated and Non-Independent Morphological Characters
• Dynamic recruitment of amino acid transporters to the insect/symbiont interface
• Demand for beef is unrelated to pasture expansion in northwestern Amazonia
• A Cluster of Olfactory Receptor Genes Linked to Frugivory in Bats
• Selection for mechanical advantage underlies multiple cranial optima in new world leaf-nosed bats
• An horizon scan of biogeography
• Deglaciation explains bat extinction in the Caribbean
• An apparent hybrid Heliodoxa hummingbird from the West Andes of Colombia
• Understanding phylogenetic incongruence: lessons from phyllostomid bats
• Detecting the Immune System Response of a 500 Year-Old Inca Mummy
• West Indian Mammals: the Old, the New, and the Recently Extinct
• Keeping it simple: flowering plants tend to retain, and revert to, simple leaves
• Forests and Drugs: Coca-Driven Deforestation in Tropical Biodiversity Hotspots
• El Callejón de los Milagros
• The river-refuge hypothesis and other contributions of Márcio Ayres to conservation science
• Earth history and the evolution of Caribbean bats
• Disabusing cocaine: Pervasive myths and enduring realities of a globalised commodity
• Accounting for molecular stochasticity in systematic revisions: Species limits and phylogeny of Paroaria
• New species of Lonchophylla ‪(‬Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae‪)‬ from the eastern Andes of northwestern South America
• Saturation and base composition bias explain phylogenomic conflict in Plasmodium
• Conservation in conflict: illegal drugs versus habitat in the Americas
• Short‐faced bats (Phyllostomidae: Stenodermatina): a Caribbean radiation of strict frugivores
• The geography of diversification in the mormoopids (Chiroptera: Mormoopidae)
• The Nature and Dynamics of Bacterial Genomes
• Molecular phylogeny of funnel-eared bats (Chiroptera: Natalidae), with notes on biogeography and conservation
• Bats of Puerto Rico
• Exploring population genetic structure in three species of Lesser Antillean bats
• Phylogeny of the Lonchophyllini (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae)
• Historical biogeography of the Antilles: Earth history and phylogenetics of endemic chiropteran taxa
• Phylogeny and biogeography of Caribbean mammals
• A New Chocoan Species of Lonchophylla (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae)
• Epicrates subflavus (Jamaican Boa), Foraging behavior
• Geographical sampling bias and its implications for conservation priorities in Africa
• Regulating access to genetic resources under the Convention on Biological Diversity: an analysis of selected case studies
• New and Noteworthy Records from Ten Jamaican Bat Caves
• Missing the Forest for the Profits: The Role of Multinational Corporations in the International Forest Regime
• Parc National La Visite, Haiti a last refuge for the country's montane birds
• The birds of Ile-a-Vache, Haiti
• The San Lucas mountain range in Colombia how much conservation is owed to the violence?
• La perspectiva ambiental en la mesa de diálogo
• El Futuro de los bosques de Colombia: ¿será la paz peor que la guerra?
• Ornithological observations from Reserva Natural Tambito, Cauca, south-west Colombia
• The bat fauna of Tambito, Colombia
• Access to Genetic Resources: An Evaluation of the Development and Implementation of Recent Regulation and Access Agreements
• Birds-Aves
• The first breeding records of white-rimmed brush-finch Atlapetes leucopis with ecological notes
• Marcadores moleculares asociados a resistencia al virus de la hoja blanca de arroz (Oryza sativa L.)