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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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Mammals

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Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Vocal communication in the pallid bat, Antrozous pallidus.
The communication sounds of the pallid bat, Antrozous pallidus, wre studied in the laboratory. Adult pallid bats communicate via… 
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Effect of diet quality on carbon and nitrogen turnover and isotopic discrimination in blood of a New World nectarivorous bat
SUMMARY Diet composition of carbon and nitrogen (C:N) could affect diet-tissue isotopic discrimination and elemental turnover… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Function of male song in the greater white-lined bat, Saccopteryx bilineata
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
A field key to the bats of Costa Rica
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Vocal recognition in mexican free-tailed bats: do pups recognize mothers?
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Molecular phylogeny of the superorder Archonta.
The superorder Archonta has been hypothesized to include primates, tree shrews, bats, and flying lemurs as descendants of a… 
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
Optimal sugar concentrations of floral nectars —dependence on sugar intake efficiency and foraging costs
SummaryA model is developed to elucidate the determinants of sugar concentrations in flower nectars. This model analyses the… 
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
Neural representation of target distance in auditory cortex of the echolocating bat Myotis lucifugus.
1. Single- and multiunit recordings were obtained from neurons in the auditory cortex of the echolocating bat Myotis lucifugus… 
Highly Cited
1963
Highly Cited
1963
The neurophysiology of audition in bats: intensity and frequency parameters
Bats of the sub-order Microchiroptera use the echoes of emitted orientation sounds as a completely successful alternative for… 
Highly Cited
1963
Highly Cited
1963
The neurophysiology of audition in bats: temporal parameters
Two of the most difficult problems facing an echolocating bat are the necessity of gaining information from the second and… 
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