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} }
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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