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Chiroptera

Known as: Bats, bat 
Order of mammals whose members are adapted for flight. It includes bats, flying foxes, and fruit bats.
National Institutes of Health

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Family PteropodidaeGenus PteropusRhinolophusRousettus
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Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
BBA: A Binary Bat Algorithm for Feature Selection
Feature selection aims to find the most important information from a given set of features. As this task can be seen as an… 
Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
Inoculation of bats with European Geomyces destructans supports the novel pathogen hypothesis for the origin of white-nose syndrome
White-nose syndrome (WNS) is an emerging disease of hibernating bats associated with cutaneous infection by the fungus Geomyces… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
FoxP2 Expression in Avian Vocal Learners and Non-Learners
Most vertebrates communicate acoustically, but few, among them humans, dolphins and whales, bats, and three orders of birds… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Echolocation in bats and dolphins
Although bats and dolphins live in very different environments, are vastly different in size, and hunt different kinds of prey… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Biological Correlates of Extinction Risk in Bats
We investigated patterns and processes of extinction and threat in bats using a multivariate phylogenetic comparative approach… 
Review
1998
Review
1998
Effect of seed passage through vertebrate frugivores' guts on germination: A review
Abstract The capacity of seeds to germinate after ingestion by frugivores is important for the population dynamics of some plant… 
Review
1991
Review
1991
Primate origins and the evolution of angiosperms
Traditionally, the morphological traits of primates were assumed to be adaptations to an arboreal way of life. However, Cartmill… 
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Ecology of Bats
1 Roosting Ecology.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Day Roosts.- 2.1. Adaptations for Roosting.- 2.2. Roost Activities and Time Budgets.- 2… 
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Bats: A Natural History
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
Measurements of atmospheric attenuation at ultrasonic frequencies and the significance for echolocation by bats.
The absorption of sound propagating through the atmosphere under laboratory conditions of 25 degrees C and 50% relative humidity… 
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