E C Teeling1, M Scally, D J Kao

  • 1Queen's University of Belfast, Biology and Biochemistry, UK.

Nature
|January 26, 2000
PubMed
まとめ

系統遺伝学的分析によると,エコーロケーションはコウモリで独立して進化したかもしれないし,メガバットで失われたかもしれない. この研究は,コウモリの進化的関係を再定義し,エコロケーションの発達に関する以前の仮定に異議を唱える.

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