• DOI:10.1126/SCIENCE.1105113
Corpus ID: 25912333

A Molecular Phylogeny for Bats Illuminates Biogeography and the Fossil Record

@article{Teeling2005AMP,
  title={A Molecular Phylogeny for Bats Illuminates Biogeography and the Fossil Record},
  author={E. Teeling and M. Springer and Ole Madsen and P. Bates and S. O'Brien and W. Murphy},
  journal={Science},
  year={2005},
  volume={307},
  pages={580 - 584}
}

E. Teeling, M. Springer, +3 authors W. Murphy

Published 2005

Biology, Medicine

Science

Bats make up more than 20% of extant mammals, yet their evolutionary history is largely unknown because of a limited fossil record and conflicting or incomplete phylogenies. Here, we present a highly resolved molecular phylogeny for all extant bat families. Our results support the hypothesis that megabats are nested among four major microbat lineages, which originated in the early Eocene [52 to 50 million years ago (Mya)], coincident with a significant global rise in temperature, increase in… CONTINUE READING

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