Diversification in Noctilionoid Bats

Jun 8, 2009
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Liliana M. Dávalos
Liliana M. Dávalos
Professor of Conservation Biology

I’m interested in biodiversity, both its past and its future.

Publications

Out of the Antilles: Fossil Phylogenies Support Reverse Colonization of Bats to South America
Previous phylogenies of extant short‐faced bats (Chiroptera Stenodermatina) supported either two colonization events from the mainland …
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Phylogeny and divergence times of lemurs inferred with recent and ancient fossils in the tree
Paleontological and neontological systematics seek to answer evolutionary questions with different data sets. Phylogenies inferred for …
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Bats (Chiroptera: Noctilionoidea) Challenge a Recent Origin of Extant Neotropical Diversity
The mechanisms underlying the high extant biodiversity in the Neotropics have been controversial since the 19th century. Support for …
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Bayesian hierarchical models suggest oldest known plant-visiting bat was omnivorous
The earliest record of plant visiting in bats dates to the Middle Miocene of La Venta, the world’s most diverse tropical …
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Amino acid transporter expansions associated with the evolution of obligate endosymbiosis in sap-feeding insects (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha)
Mutualistic obligate endosymbioses shape the evolution of endosymbiont genomes, but their impact on host genomes remains unclear. …
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Molecular evolution of growth hormone and insulin-like growth factor 1 receptors in long-lived, small-bodied mammals
Mammals typically display a robust positive relationship between lifespan and body size. Two groups that deviate markedly from this …
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Sex-biased dispersal produces high error rates in mitochondrial distance-based and tree-based species delimitation
Species delimitation using mitochondrial sequences aims to identify species as morphological expertise and biodiversity both decline. …
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Integrating Incomplete Fossils by Isolating Conflicting Signal in Saturated and Non-Independent Morphological Characters
Morphological characters are indispensable in phylogenetic analyses for understanding the pattern, process, and tempo of evolution. If …
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Dynamic recruitment of amino acid transporters to the insect/symbiont interface
Symbiosis is well known to influence bacterial symbiont genome evolution and has recently been shown to shape eukaryotic host genomes. …
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A Cluster of Olfactory Receptor Genes Linked to Frugivory in Bats
Diversity of the mammalian olfactory receptor (OR) repertoire has been globally reshaped by niche specialization. However, little is …
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Selection for mechanical advantage underlies multiple cranial optima in new world leaf-nosed bats
Selection for divergent performance optima has been proposed as a central mechanism underlying adaptive radiation. Uncovering multiple …
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Deglaciation explains bat extinction in the Caribbean
Ecological factors such as changing climate on land and interspecific competition have been debated as possible causes of postglacial …
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Understanding phylogenetic incongruence: lessons from phyllostomid bats
All characters and trait systems in an organism share a common evolutionary history that can be estimated using phylogenetic methods. …
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Morphological innovation, diversification and invasion of a new adaptive zone
How ecological opportunity relates to diversification is a central question in evolutionary biology. However, there are few empirical …
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