UID:
almahu_9948233773902882
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 560 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781139045599 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in morphology and molecules : new paradigms in evolutionary biology ; 2
Content:
Advances in morphological and molecular methods continue to uncover new information on the origin and evolution of bats. Presenting some of the most remarkable discoveries and research involving living and fossil bats, this book explores their evolutionary history from a range of perspectives. Phylogenetic studies based on both molecular and morphological data have established a framework of evolutionary relationships that provides a context for understanding many aspects of bat biology and diversification. In addition to detailed studies of the relationships and diversification of bats, the topics covered include the mechanisms and evolution of powered flight, evolution and enhancement of echolocation, feeding ecology, population genetic structure, ontogeny and growth of facial form, functional morphology and evolution of body size. The book also examines the fossil history of bats from their beginnings over 50 million years ago to their diversification into one of the most globally wide-spread orders of mammals living today.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Phylogenies, fossils and functional genes : the evolution of echolocation in bats / Emma C. Teeling, Serena Dool and Mark Springer -- Systematics and paleobiogeography of early bats / Thierry Smith [and others] -- Shoulder joint and inner ear of Tachypteron franzeni, an emballonurid bat from the Middle Eocene of Messel / Jörg Habersetzer [and others] -- Evolutionary history of the neotropical Chiroptera : the fossil record / Gary S. Morgan and Nicholas J. Czaplewski -- New basal noctilionoid bats (Mammalia, Chiroptera) from the Oligocene of subtropical North America / Nicholas J. Czaplewski and Gary S. Morgan -- Necromantis Weithofer, 1887, large carnivorous middle and late Eocene bats from the French Quercy Phosphorites : new data and unresolved relationships / Suzanne Hand, Bernard Sigé and Elodie Maitre -- African Vespertilionoidea (Chiroptera) and the antiquity of Myotinae / Gregg F. Gunnell, Thomas P. Eiting and Elwyn L. Simons -- Evolutionary and ecological correlates of population genetic structure in bats / Kevin J. Olival -- A bird? A plane? No, it's a bat : an introduction to the biomechanics of bat flight / Sharon M. Swartz [and others] -- Toward an integrative theory on the origin of bat flight / Norberto P. Giannini -- Molecular timescale of diversification of feeding strategy and morphology in New World leaf-nosed bats (Phyllostomidae) : a phylogenetic perspective / Robert J. Baker [and others] -- Why tribosphenic? : on variation and constraint in developmental dynamics of chiropteran molars / Ivan Horáček and František Špoutil -- Necromantodonty, the primitive condition of lower molars among bats / Bernard Sigé, Elodie Maitre and Suzanne Hand -- Echolocation, evo-devo and the evolution of bat crania / Scott C. Pedersen and Douglas W. Timm -- Vertebral fusion in bats : phylogenetic patterns and functional relationships / Dawn J. Larkey, Shannon L. Datwyler and Winston C. Lancaster -- Early evolution of body size in bats / Norberto P. Giannini [and others].
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521768245
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139045599
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/de/academic/subjects/life-sciences/evolutionary-biology/evolutionary-history-bats-fossils-molecules-and-morphology?format=PB
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