25 Years of sensory drive: the evidence and its watery bias

ME Cummings, JA Endler - Current Zoology, 2018 - academic.oup.com
It has been 25 years since the formalization of the Sensory Drive hypothesis was published
in the American Naturalist (1992). Since then, there has been an explosion of research …

Weather conditions determine attenuation and speed of sound: Environmental limitations for monitoring and analyzing bat echolocation

HR Goerlitz - Ecology and evolution, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Echolocating bats are regularly studied to investigate auditory‐guided behaviors and as
important bioindicators. Bioacoustic monitoring methods based on echolocation calls are …

Automatic standardized processing and identification of tropical bat calls using deep learning approaches

X Chen, J Zhao, Y Chen, W Zhou, AC Hughes - Biological Conservation, 2020 - Elsevier
Consistent and comparable metrics to automatically monitor biodiversity across the
landscape remain a gold-standard for biodiversity research, yet such approaches have …

Molecular phylogenetics of the African horseshoe bats (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae): expanded geographic and taxonomic sampling of the Afrotropics

TC Demos, PW Webala, SM Goodman… - BMC Evolutionary …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Background The Old World insectivorous bat genus Rhinolophus is highly
speciose. Over the last 15 years, the number of its recognized species has grown from 77 to …

Find the food first: an omnivorous sensory morphotype predates biomechanical specialization for plant based diets in phyllostomid bats

RP Hall, GL Mutumi, BP Hedrick, LR Yohe, A Sadier… - …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The role of mechanical morphologies in the exploitation of novel niche space is well
characterized; however, the role of sensory structures in unlocking new niches is less clear …

Diversifying selection and climatic effects on major histocompatibility complex class II gene diversity in the greater horseshoe bat

X Li, T Liu, A Li, Y **ao, K Sun… - Evolutionary …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Heterogeneous pathogenic stress can shape major histocompatibility complex (MHC)
diversity by influencing the functional plasticity of the immune response. Therefore, MHC …

Echolocation call divergence in bats: a comparative analysis

B Luo, L Leiser-Miller, SE Santana, L Zhang… - Behavioral Ecology and …, 2019 - Springer
Animal vocalizations experience pressures from ecological conditions, but their
diversification may be constrained by morphology and evolutionary history. To date, the …

Echolocation call frequencies of bats vary with body temperature and weather conditions

H Wu, L Gong, T Jiang, J Feng, A Lin - Animal Behaviour, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•Call frequency is correlated with body temperature among individuals in H.
armiger.•Body temperature and call frequency decrease at low (constant) ambient …

The roles of different gene expression regulators in acoustic variation in the intermediate horseshoe bat revealed by long-read and short-read RNA sequencing data

Q Li, J Wu, X Mao - Current Zoology, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Gene expression changes contribute greatly to phenotypic variations in nature. Studying
patterns of regulators of gene expression is important to fully understand the molecular …

Southern Africa's Great Escarpment as an amphitheater of climate‐driven diversification and a buffer against future climate change in bats

PJ Taylor, TC Kearney, VR Clark… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Hosting 1460 plant and 126 vertebrate endemic species, the Great Escarpment (hereafter,
Escarpment) forms a semi‐circular “amphitheater” of mountains girdling southern Africa from …