N B Simmons

Summary

Affiliation: American Museum of Natural History
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Evolution. An Eocene big bang for bats
    Nancy B Simmons
    Division of Vertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024, USA
    Science 307:527-8. 2005
  2. ncbi Evolutionary relationships of the old world fruit bats (Chiroptera, Pteropodidae): another star phylogeny?
    Francisca C Almeida
    American Museum of Natural History, Division of Vertebrate Zoology, Department of Mammalogy, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024, USA
    BMC Evol Biol 11:281. 2011
  3. ncbi Primitive Early Eocene bat from Wyoming and the evolution of flight and echolocation
    Nancy B Simmons
    American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, New York 10024, USA
    Nature 451:818-21. 2008
  4. ncbi Inferring echolocation in ancient bats
    Nancy B Simmons
    American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, New York 10024, USA
    Nature 466:E8; discussion E9. 2010
  5. ncbi The phylogenetic relationships of cynopterine fruit bats (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae: Cynopterinae)
    Francisca C Almeida
    American Museum of Natural History, Division of Vertebrate Zoology, Department of Mammalogy, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024, USA
    Mol Phylogenet Evol 53:772-83. 2009
  6. ncbi A phylogenetic supertree of the bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera)
    Kate E Jones
    Department of Biology, Imperial College at Silwood Park, Ascot, Berkshire, UK
    Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 77:223-59. 2002

Detail Information

Publications6

  1. ncbi Evolution. An Eocene big bang for bats
    Nancy B Simmons
    Division of Vertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024, USA
    Science 307:527-8. 2005
  2. ncbi Evolutionary relationships of the old world fruit bats (Chiroptera, Pteropodidae): another star phylogeny?
    Francisca C Almeida
    American Museum of Natural History, Division of Vertebrate Zoology, Department of Mammalogy, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024, USA
    BMC Evol Biol 11:281. 2011
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  3. ncbi Primitive Early Eocene bat from Wyoming and the evolution of flight and echolocation
    Nancy B Simmons
    American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, New York 10024, USA
    Nature 451:818-21. 2008
    ..Limb proportions and retention of claws on all digits indicate that the new bat may have been an agile climber that employed quadrupedal locomotion and under-branch hanging behaviour...
  4. ncbi Inferring echolocation in ancient bats
    Nancy B Simmons
    American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, New York 10024, USA
    Nature 466:E8; discussion E9. 2010
    ..finneyi may have been capable of echolocation. We disagree with their interpretation of key fossil data and instead argue that O. finneyi was probably not an echolocating bat...
  5. ncbi The phylogenetic relationships of cynopterine fruit bats (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae: Cynopterinae)
    Francisca C Almeida
    American Museum of Natural History, Division of Vertebrate Zoology, Department of Mammalogy, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024, USA
    Mol Phylogenet Evol 53:772-83. 2009
    ..Biogeographic analyses indicate a Sundaland origin of the Cynopterinae and divergence date estimates suggest different timing of diversification of the two major cynopterine clades...
  6. ncbi A phylogenetic supertree of the bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera)
    Kate E Jones
    Department of Biology, Imperial College at Silwood Park, Ascot, Berkshire, UK
    Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 77:223-59. 2002
    ....