Ecology and evolutionary biology of fishing bats

Hologenomic adaptations underlying the evolution of sanguivory in the common vampire bat

(2018) M. Lisandra Zepeda Mendoza et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Environmental DNA metabarcoding: Transforming how we survey animal and plant communities

(2017) Kristy Deiner et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

33 million year old Myotis (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) and the rapid global radiation of modern bats

(2017) Gregg F. Gunnell et al.   PLoS One

Cranial Shape and Diet Variation inMyotisSpecies (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae): Testing the Relationship between Form and Function

(2016) Sandra Milena Ospina-Garcés et al.   ACTA CHIROPTEROLOGICA

Stable isotopes reveal differences in diet among reed bunting subspecies that vary in bill size

(2016) Júlio Manuel Neto et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Ecomorph Evolution in Myotis (Vespertilionidae, Chiroptera)

(2016) Maria Ghazali et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

Sensory challenges for trawling bats: Finding transient prey on water surfaces

(2016) Kirstin Übernickel et al.   JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Next-generation monitoring of aquatic biodiversity using environmental DNA metabarcoding

(2016) Alice Valentini et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Fishing Technique of Long-Fingered Bats Was Developed from a Primary Reaction to Disappearing Target Stimuli

(2016) Ostaizka Aizpurua et al.   PLoS One

Go big or go fish: morphological specializations in carnivorous bats

(2016) Sharlene E. Santana et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Bats (Chiroptera: Noctilionoidea) Challenge a Recent Origin of Extant Neotropical Diversity

(2016) Danny Rojas et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Do Vertebrate Gut Metagenomes Confer Rapid Ecological Adaptation?

(2016) Antton Alberdi et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Sonar sound groups and increased terminal buzz duration reflect task complexity in hunting bats

(2016) Katrine Hulgard et al.   Scientific Reports

The Buzz of Drinking on the Wing in Echolocating Bats

(2015) Danilo Russo et al.   ETHOLOGY

The cost of digestion in the fish-eating myotis (Myotis vivesi)

(2015) K. C. Welch et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Digestive Adaptations of Aerial Lifestyles

(2015) Edwin R. Price et al.   PHYSIOLOGY

Fast sensory–motor reactions in echolocating bats to sudden changes during the final buzz and prey intercept

(2015) Cornelia Geberl et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

DNA metabarcoding illuminates dietary niche partitioning by African large herbivores

(2015) Tyler R. Kartzinel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Dynamics of the echolocation beam during prey pursuit in aerial hawking bats

(2015) Lasse Jakobsen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Insight on how fishing bats discern prey and adjust their mechanic and sensorial features during the attack sequence

(2015) Ostaizka Aizpurua et al.   Scientific Reports

Somatosensory Substrates of Flight Control in Bats

(2015) Kara L. Marshall et al.   Cell Reports

Phyllostomid bat microbiome composition is associated to host phylogeny and feeding strategies

(2015) Mario Carrillo-Araujo et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

MiFish, a set of universal PCR primers for metabarcoding environmental DNA from fishes: detection of more than 230 subtropical marine species

(2015) M. Miya et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Fine-tuned echolocation and capture-flight of Myotis capaccinii when facing different-sized insect and fish prey

(2014) O. Aizpurua et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Risky Ripples Allow Bats and Frogs to Eavesdrop on a Multisensory Sexual Display

(2014) W. Halfwerk et al.   SCIENCE

How the bat got its buzz

(2013) J. M. Ratcliffe et al.   Biology Letters

Marine and terrestrial food sources in the diet of the fish-eating myotis (Myotis vivesi)

(2013) Aída Otálora-Ardila et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Molecular phylogenetic reconstructions identify East Asia as the cradle for the evolution of the cosmopolitan genus Myotis (Mammalia, Chiroptera)

(2013) Manuel Ruedi et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Diet rapidly and reproducibly alters the human gut microbiome

(2013) Lawrence A. David et al.   NATURE

Fishing Long-Fingered Bats (Myotis capaccinii) Prey Regularly upon Exotic Fish

(2013) Ostaizka Aizpurua et al.   PLoS One

Diet of the Large-footed Myotis Myotis Mcropus at A Forest Stream Roost in Northern New South Wales

(2013) B Law et al.   AUSTRALIAN MAMMALOGY

Flexible echolocation behavior of trawling bats during approach of continuous or transient prey cues

(2013) Kirstin Übernickel et al.   Frontiers in Physiology

Behavioral flexibility of the trawling long-legged bat, Macrophyllum macrophyllum (Phyllostomidae)

(2013) Moritz Weinbeer et al.   Frontiers in Physiology

Microbiome analysis among bats describes influences of host phylogeny, life history, physiology and geography

(2012) CALEB D. PHILLIPS et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Innate recognition of water bodies in echolocating bats

(2010) Stefan Greif et al.   Nature Communications

Fishing behaviour in the long-fingered bat Myotis capaccinii (Bonaparte, 1837): an experimental approach

(2009) Joxerra Aihartza et al.   ACTA CHIROPTEROLOGICA

Analysing diet of small herbivores: the efficiency of DNA barcoding coupled with high-throughput pyrosequencing for deciphering the composition of complex plant mixtures

(2009) Eeva M Soininen et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Analysis of Australian fur seal diet by pyrosequencing prey DNA in faeces

(2009) BRUCE E. DEAGLE et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

New perspectives in diet analysis based on DNA barcoding and parallel pyrosequencing: thetrnL approach

(2009) ALICE VALENTINI et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Response to Comment by Goldberg et al. on "DNA from Pre-Clovis Human Coprolites in Oregon, North America"

(2009) M. Rasmussen et al.   SCIENCE

Distribution and ultrastructure of Merkel cell of the fishing bat (Myotis ricketti)

(2009) JiangXia Yin et al.   Science in China. Series C, Life sciences / Chinese Academy of Sciences

Diet and prey selection in the trawling long-fingered bat

(2007) D. Almenar et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY