Laurel R. Yohe

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• Disentangling mechanical and sensory modules in the radiation of Noctilionoid bats
• 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
• Nectar-Feeding Bats and Birds Show Parallel Molecular Adaptations in Sugar Metabolism Enzymes
• 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
• 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
• Foraging shifts and visual preadaptation in ecologically diverse bats
• Species tree disequilibrium positively misleads models of gene family evolution
• 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
• Multifactorial processes underlie parallel opsin loss in neotropical bats
• Protocols for the Molecular Evolutionary Analysis of Membrane Protein Gene Duplicates
• Assessing Soft-Tissue Shrinkage Estimates in Museum Specimens Imaged With Diffusible Iodine-based Contrast-Enhanced Computed Tomography (diceCT)
• Vomeronasal and olfactory structures in bats revealed by diceCT clarify genetic evidence of function
• Strength of selection on the Trpc2 gene predicts accessory olfactory bulb form in bat vomeronasal evolution
• The Molecular Evolution of Bat Chemosensory Pathways Reveals Sensory Innovation and Loss
• Trpc2 pseudogenization dynamics in bats reveal ancestral vomeronasal signaling, then pervasive loss
• Bayesian hierarchical models suggest oldest known plant-visiting bat was omnivorous