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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.
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Family PteropodidaeGenus PteropusRhinolophusRousettus
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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
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
1987
Highly Cited
1987
The lazy, adaptable lions: a Markovian model of group foraging
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Echo intensity compensation by echolocating bats
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
1970
Highly Cited
1970
Echo-Ranging Neurons in the Inferior Colliculus of Bats
Bats measure the distance to an object in terms of the time lag between their outgoing orientation sounds and the returning echo… 
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… 
Highly Cited
1958
Highly Cited
1958
Ecological observations on lasiurine bats in Iowa.
During the period August 8,1955 to June 30,1956, while engaged in wildlife rabies investigations at the Newton Field Station, 12… 
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