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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5709
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-1-31
pubmed:abstractText
Bats make up more than 20% of extant mammals, yet their evolutionary history is largely unknown because of a limited fossil record and conflicting or incomplete phylogenies. Here, we present a highly resolved molecular phylogeny for all extant bat families. Our results support the hypothesis that megabats are nested among four major microbat lineages, which originated in the early Eocene [52 to 50 million years ago (Mya)], coincident with a significant global rise in temperature, increase in plant diversity and abundance, and the zenith of Tertiary insect diversity. Our data suggest that bats originated in Laurasia, possibly in North America, and that three of the major microbat lineages are Laurasian in origin, whereas the fourth is Gondwanan. Combining principles of ghost lineage analysis with molecular divergence dates, we estimate that the bat fossil record underestimates (unrepresented basal branch length, UBBL) first occurrences by, on average, 73% and that the sum of missing fossil history is 61%.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
1095-9203
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
28
pubmed:volume
307
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
580-4
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:15681385-Africa, pubmed-meshheading:15681385-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:15681385-Asia, pubmed-meshheading:15681385-Bayes Theorem, pubmed-meshheading:15681385-Biodiversity, pubmed-meshheading:15681385-Biological Evolution, pubmed-meshheading:15681385-Chiroptera, pubmed-meshheading:15681385-Echolocation, pubmed-meshheading:15681385-Europe, pubmed-meshheading:15681385-Flight, Animal, pubmed-meshheading:15681385-Fossils, pubmed-meshheading:15681385-Genes, pubmed-meshheading:15681385-Geography, pubmed-meshheading:15681385-Likelihood Functions, pubmed-meshheading:15681385-North America, pubmed-meshheading:15681385-Phylogeny, pubmed-meshheading:15681385-Plants, pubmed-meshheading:15681385-Sequence Analysis, DNA, pubmed-meshheading:15681385-South America, pubmed-meshheading:15681385-Temperature, pubmed-meshheading:15681385-Time
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
A molecular phylogeny for bats illuminates biogeography and the fossil record.
pubmed:affiliation
Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, Basic Research Program, SAIC-Frederick, Inc., National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702, USA. emma.teeling@ucd.ie
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.