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Title Evolutionary history of bats : fossils, molecules, and morphology / edited by Gregg F. Gunnell and Nancy B. Simmons.

Publication Info. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 560 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Cambridge studies in morphology and molecules : new paradigms in evolutionary biology
Cambridge studies in morphology and molecules.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Phylogenies, fossils and functional genes : the evolution of echolocation in bats / Emma C. Teeling, Serena Dool and Mark Springer -- Systematics and paleobiogeography of early bats / Thierry Smith [and others] -- Shoulder joint and inner ear of Tachypteron franzeni, an emballonurid bat from the Middle Eocene of Messel / Jörg Habersetzer [and others] -- Evolutionary history of the neotropical Chiroptera : the fossil record / Gary S. Morgan and Nicholas J. Czaplewski -- New basal noctilionoid bats (Mammalia, Chiroptera) from the Oligocene of subtropical North America / Nicholas J. Czaplewski and Gary S. Morgan -- Necromantis Weithofer, 1887, large carnivorous middle and late Eocene bats from the French Quercy Phosphorites : new data and unresolved relationships / Suzanne Hand, Bernard Sigé and Elodie Maitre -- African Vespertilionoidea (Chiroptera) and the antiquity of Myotinae / Gregg F. Gunnell, Thomas P. Eiting and Elwyn L. Simons -- Evolutionary and ecological correlates of population genetic structure in bats / Kevin J. Olival -- A bird? A plane? No, it's a bat : an introduction to the biomechanics of bat flight / Sharon M. Swartz [and others] -- Toward an integrative theory on the origin of bat flight / Norberto P. Giannini -- Molecular timescale of diversification of feeding strategy and morphology in New World leaf-nosed bats (Phyllostomidae) : a phylogenetic perspective / Robert J. Baker [and others] -- Why tribosphenic? : on variation and constraint in developmental dynamics of chiropteran molars / Ivan Horáček and František Špoutil -- Necromantodonty, the primitive condition of lower molars among bats / Bernard Sigé, Elodie Maitre and Suzanne Hand -- Echolocation, evo-devo and the evolution of bat crania / Scott C. Pedersen and Douglas W. Timm -- Vertebral fusion in bats : phylogenetic patterns and functional relationships / Dawn J. Larkey, Shannon L. Datwyler and Winston C. Lancaster -- Early evolution of body size in bats / Norberto P. Giannini [and others].
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Subject Bats -- Evolution.
Bats -- Evolution.
Bats.
Bats, Fossil.
Bats, Fossil.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Gunnell, Gregg F.
Simmons, Nancy B.
Other Form: Print version: Evolutionary history of bats. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012 9780521768245 (DLC) 2011026106 (OCoLC)740281630
ISBN 9781139223829 (electronic book)
1139223828 (electronic book)
9780521768245
0521768241
9780521745260
0521745268
Standard No. 9786613718907