Bats (Chiroptera) represent the largest diversification of extant mammals after rodents. Here
we report the results of a large-scale phylogeny of bats based on unconstrained searches …

Evolutionary biologists have a long‐standing interest in how acoustic signals in animals vary
geographically, because divergent ecology and sensory perception play an important role in …

The Cat Ba Biosphere Reserve is internationally renowned for its spectacular karst
landscape. It covers a large area with hundreds of limestone islands and various …

The phylogenetic and taxonomic relationships among the Old World leaf-nosed bats
(Hipposideridae) and the closely related horseshoe bats (Rhinolophidae) remain …

Despite many studies illustrating the perils of utilising mitochondrial DNA in phylogenetic
studies, it remains one of the most widely used genetic markers for this purpose. Over the …

Bats are atypical small mammals. Size is crucial for bats because it affects most
aerodynamic variables and several key echolocation parameters. In turn, scaling …

Recent molecular evidence has shown that the largest genus of the family Hipposideridae,
Hipposideros, is paraphyletic with respect to H. commersonii sensu lato and H. vittatus, both …

Aim The goals of our study were to assess the population history and genetic structure of the
widespread bat H ipposideros armiger, and to evaluate the effect of palaeoclimatic changes …

We used an integrative approach combining cranio-dental characters, mitochondrial and
nuclear data and acoustic data to show the presence in the genus Miniopterus of a cryptic …

A new species of Hipposideros is described from Vietnam. Morphologically, it is similar to
taxa in the Hipposideros armiger complex but is substantially smaller. The new species …