For the past 10–15 years, bats have attracted growing attention as reservoirs of emerging
zoonotic viruses. This has been due to a combination of factors including the emergence of …

Echolocation in bats and high-frequency hearing in their insect prey make bats and insects
an ideal system for studying the sensory ecology and neuroethology of predator–prey …

Butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) are one of the major superradiations of insects,
comprising nearly 160,000 described extant species. As herbivores, pollinators, and prey …

To discover interordinal relationships of living and fossil placental mammals and the time of
origin of placentals relative to the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary, we scored 4541 …

Molecular phylogenetics has rapidly established the evolutionary positions of most major
mammal groups [1, 2], yet analyses have repeatedly failed to agree on that of bats (order …

Bats are among the most recognizable, numerous, and widespread of all mammals. But
much of their fossil record is missing, and bat origins remain poorly understood, as do the …

INTRODUCTION Echolocation is a form of orientation behavior in which some animals can
assess environments in which vision is ineffective. Echolocating mammals have been …

Duty cycle describes the relative 'on time'of a periodic signal. In bats, we argue that high duty
cycle (HDC) echolocation was selected for and evolved from low duty cycle (LDC) …

Nature has engineered complex designs to achieve advanced properties and functionalities
through millions of years of evolution. Many organisms have adapted to their living …

Bats are the second-most speciose group of mammals, comprising 20% of species diversity
today. Their global explosion, representing one of the greatest adaptive radiations in …