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| N B SimmonsSummaryAffiliation: American Museum of Natural History Country: USA Publications
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Evolution. An Eocene big bang for batsNancy B Simmons
Division of Vertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024, USA
Science 307:527-8. 2005
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....
Primitive Early Eocene bat from Wyoming and the evolution of flight and echolocationNancy 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...
Inferring echolocation in ancient batsNancy 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...
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...
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....
