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dc.contributor.authorAnderson, Sophia
dc.contributor.authorRuxton, Graeme Douglas
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-11T09:30:02Z
dc.date.available2020-09-11T09:30:02Z
dc.date.issued2020-09-30
dc.identifier268644677
dc.identifiere36b574e-216f-4c7a-9387-155da25945d5
dc.identifier000567750900001
dc.identifier85090787592
dc.identifier.citationAnderson , S & Ruxton , G D 2020 , ' The evolution of flight in bats : a novel hypothesis ' , Mammal Review , vol. 50 , no. 4 , pp. 426-439 . https://doi.org/10.1111/mam.12211en
dc.identifier.issn0305-1838
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/20607
dc.description.abstract1. Bats (order Chiroptera) are the only mammals capable of powered flight, and this may be an important factor behind their rapid diversification into the over 1400 species that exist today – around a quarter of all mammalian species. Though flight in bats has been extensively studied, the evolutionary history of the ability to fly in the chiropterans remains unclear. 2. We provide an updated synthesis of current understanding of the mechanics of flight in bats (from skeleton to metabolism), its relation to echolocation, and where previously articulated evolutionary hypotheses for the development of flight in bats stand following recent empirical advances. We consider the gliding model, and the echolocation‐first, flight‐first, tandem development, and diurnal frugivore hypotheses. In the light of the recently published description of the web‐winged dinosaur Ambopteryx longibrachium, we draw together all the current evidence into a novel hypothesis. 3. We present the interdigital webbing hypothesis: the ancestral bat exhibited interdigital webbing prior to powered flight ability, and the Yangochiroptera, Pteropodidae, and Rhinolophoidea evolved into their current forms along parallel trajectories from this common ancestor. Thus, we suggest that powered flight may have evolved multiple times within the Chiroptera and that similarity in wing morphology in different lineages is driven by convergence from a common ancestor with interdigital webbing.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofMammal Reviewen
dc.subjectBatsen
dc.subjectChiropteraen
dc.subjectEcholocationen
dc.subjectEvolution of flighten
dc.subjectInterdigital webbingen
dc.subjectPterosaursen
dc.subjectScansoriopterygidaeen
dc.subjectQH301 Biologyen
dc.subjectQP Physiologyen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subject.lccQH301en
dc.subject.lccQPen
dc.titleThe evolution of flight in bats : a novel hypothesisen
dc.typeJournal itemen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Biologyen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Biological Diversityen
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/mam.12211
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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