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Curb land grabbing to save the Amazon
Journal letter to the editor. Despite international conservation efforts 1, deforestation in the Amazon continues apace. While the …
Dolors Armenteras
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Pablo Negret
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Luis F. Melgarejo
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Tobia M. Lakes
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María C. Londoño
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Jaime García
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Tobias Krueger
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Matthias Baumann
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Liliana M. Dávalos
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Tissue Collection of Bats for-Omics Analyses and Primary Cell Culture
As high-throughput sequencing technologies advance, standardized methods for high quality tissue acquisition and preservation allow for …
Laurel R. Yohe
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Paolo Devanna
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Kalina T.J. Davies
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Joshua H. T. Potter
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Stephen J. Rossiter
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Emma C. Teeling
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Sonja C. Vernes
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Liliana M. Dávalos
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Evaluating the performance of targeted sequence capture, RNA-Seq, and degenerate-primer PCR cloning for sequencing the largest mammalian multigene family
Multigene families evolve from single‐copy ancestral genes via duplication, and typically encode proteins critical to key biological …
Laurel R. Yohe
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Kalina T.J. Davies
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Nancy B. Simmons
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Karen E. Sears
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Elizabeth R. Dumont
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Stephen J. Rossiter
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Liliana M. Dávalos
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Social Investment and Smallholder Coca Cultivation in Colombia
Colombia is the largest supplier of coca leaf in the world, and fields smaller than one-hectare account for more than 60 per cent of …
Eleonora Dávalos
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Liliana M. Dávalos
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Expressed vomeronasal type-1 receptors (V1rs) in bats uncover conserved sequences underlying social chemical signaling
In mammals, social and reproductive behaviors are mediated by chemical cues encoded by hyperdiverse families of receptors expressed in …
Laurel R. Yohe
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Kalina T.J. Davies
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Stephen J. Rossiter
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Liliana M. Dávalos
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Morphological Diversification under High Integration in a Hyper Diverse Mammal Clade
Diversification and adaptive radiations are tied to evolvability, which in turn is linked to morphological integration. Tightly …
Brandon P. Hedrick
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Gregory L. Mutumi
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David Munteanu
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Alexa Sadier
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Kalina T.J. Davies
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Stephen J. Rossiter
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Karen E. Sears
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Liliana M. Dávalos
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Elizabeth R. Dumont
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Parallel molecular evolution in pathways, genes, and sites in high-elevation hummingbirds revealed by comparative transcriptomics
High-elevation organisms experience shared environmental challenges that include low oxygen availability, cold temperatures, and …
Marisa C.W. Lim
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Christopher C. Witt
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Catherine H. Graham
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Liliana M. Dávalos
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Fires in protected areas reveal unforeseen costs of Colombian peace
Armed conflict, and its end, can have powerful effects on natural resources, but the influence of war and peace on highly biodiverse …
Dolors Armenteras
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Laura Schneider
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Liliana M. Dávalos
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Multifactorial processes underlie parallel opsin loss in neotropical bats
The loss of previously adaptive traits is typically linked to relaxation in selection, yet the molecular steps leading to such repeated …
Alexa Sadier
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Kalina T.J. Davies
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Laurel R. Yohe
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Kun Yun
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Paul Donat
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Brandon P. Hedrick
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Elizabeth R. Dumont
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Liliana M. Dávalos
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Stephen J. Rossiter
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Karen E. Sears
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A coalescent-based estimator of genetic drift, and acoustic divergence in the Pteronotus parnellii species complex
Determining the processes responsible for phenotypic variation is one of the central tasks of evolutionary biology. While the …
Liliana M. Dávalos
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Winston C. Lancaster
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Miguel S. Núñez-Novas
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Yolanda M. León
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Bonnie Lei
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Jon Flanders
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Amy L. Russell
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