Evolutionary History of Bats: Fossils, Molecules and Morphology

List of contributors Preface 1. Phylogenies, fossils and functional genes: the evolution of echolocation in bats Emma C. Teeling, Serena Dool and Mark Springer 2. Systematics and paleobiogeography of early bats Thierry Smith, Jorg Habersetzer, Nancy B. Simmons and Gregg F. Gunnell 3. Shoulder joint and inner ear of Tachypteron franzeni, an emballonurid bat from the middle Eocene of Messel Jorg Habersetzer, Evelyn Schlosser-Sturm, Gerhard Storch and Bernard Sige 4. Evolutionary history of the Neotropical Chiroptera: the fossil record Gary S. Morgan and Nicholas J. Czaplewski 5. New Basal Noctilionoid Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from the Oligocene of Subtropical North America Nicholas J. Czaplewski and Gary S. Morgan 6. Necromantis Weithofer, 1887, large carnivorous middle and late Eocene bats from the French Quercy Phosphorites: new data and unresolved relationships Suzanne Hand, Bernard Sige and Elodie Maitre 7. African Vespertilionoidea (Chiroptera) and the antiquity of Myotinae Gregg F. Gunnell, Thomas P. Eiting and Elwyn L. Simons 8. Evolutionary and ecological correlates of population genetic structure in bats Kevin J. Olival 9. A bird? A plane? No, it's a bat: an introduction to the biomechanics of bat flight Sharon M. Swartz, Jose Iriarte-Diaz, Daniel K. Riskin and Kenneth S. Breuer 10. Toward an integrative theory on the origin of bat flight Norberto P. Giannini 11. Molecular timescale of diversification of feeding strategy and morphology in New World Leaf-Nosed Bats (Phyllostomidae): a phylogenetic perspective Robert J. Baker, Olaf R. P. Bininda-Emonds, Hugo Mantilla-Meluk, Calvin A. Porter and Ronald A. Van Den Bussche 12. Why tribosphenic? On variation and constraint in developmental dynamics of chiropteran molars Ivan Horacek and Frantisek Spoutil 13. Necromantodonty, the primitive condition of lower molars among bats Bernard Sige, Elodie Maitre and Suzanne Hand 14. Echolocation, evo-devo, and the evolution of bat crania Scott C. Pedersen and Douglas W. Timm 15. Vertebral fusion in bats: phylogenetic patterns and functional relationships Dawn J. Larkey, Shannon L. Datwyler and Winston C. Lancaster 16. Early evolution of body size in bats Norberto P. Giannini, Gregg F. Gunnell, Jorg Habersetzer and Nancy B. Simmons Index.

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