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Adapt or Live: Adaptation, Convergent Evolution, and Plesiomorphy
A diversity of cranial phenotypes and feeding ecologies characterizes phyllostomid bats. However, many subfamilies share a similar …
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Adapt or Live: Adaptation, Convergent Evolution, and Plesiomorphy
Phylogenetics and Historical Biogeography
Traditionally, the phylogeny of phyllostomids contained a few subfamilies sharing similar cranial and ecological traits. Family-wide …
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Phylogenetics and Historical Biogeography
Foraging shifts and visual preadaptation in ecologically diverse bats
Changes in behaviour may initiate shifts to new adaptive zones, with physical adap- tations for novel environments evolving later. …
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Foraging shifts and visual preadaptation in ecologically diverse bats
On the Evolution and Diversification of Andean Hummingbirds
At first look, the harsh physical conditions of the Andes should impose serious physiological constraints on hummingbirds, but instead, …
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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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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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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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