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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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Anthropogenic Extinction Dominates Holocene Declines of West Indian Mammals
The extensive postglacial mammal losses in the West Indies provide an opportunity to evaluate extinction dynamics, but limited data …
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Recent extinctions disturb path to equilibrium diversity in Caribbean bats
Islands are ideal systems to model temporal changes in biodiversity and reveal the influence of humans on natural communities. Although …
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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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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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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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West Indian Mammals: the Old, the New, and the Recently Extinct
The West Indian mammal fauna has played a key role in the development of biogeographic ideas for over a century, but a synthesis …
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Earth history and the evolution of Caribbean bats
Although the natural history of the Caribbean is better understood now than ever before, a general biogeographic explanation for the …
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Earth history and the evolution of Caribbean bats