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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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Bats (Chiroptera: Noctilionoidea) Challenge a Recent Origin of Extant Neotropical Diversity
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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A Bayesian Spatial Model Highlights Distinct Dynamics in Deforestation from Coca and Pastures in an Andean Biodiversity Hotspot
The loss of tropical forests has continued in recent decades despite wide recognition of their importance to maintaining biodiversity. …
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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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From the Field to the Lab: Best Practices for Field Preservation of Bat Specimens for Molecular Analyses
Studies in molecular ecology depend on field-collected samples for genetic information, and the tissue sampled and preservation …
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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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