Flight and echolocation evolved once in Chiroptera: comments on ‘The evolution of flight in bats: a novel hypothesis’

IF 4.3 2区生物学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Mammal Review Pub Date : 2022-02-01 DOI:10.1111/mam.12286

Nicholas M. Gardner, T. Alexander Dececchi

引用次数: 2

Abstract

Anderson and Ruxton (Mammal Review, 2020) reviewed the evolution of powered flight and laryngeal echolocation in bats. They hypothesised that powered flight and laryngeal echolocation evolved in separate lineages of handwing gliders. We note that fossil, character evolution, and developmental evidence contradicts their hypothesis, and we test their handwing gliding model, finding it aerodynamically implausible. We conclude that the traditional view of bat evolution (that flight and laryngeal echolocation evolved in the common ancestor of all bats, with the latter being lost in pteropodids) is more plausible than the proposed novel hypothesis.

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飞行和回声定位在翼翅目动物中进化了一次:对“蝙蝠飞行的进化:一个新的假设”的评论

Anderson和Ruxton(哺乳动物评论，2020)回顾了蝙蝠动力飞行和喉回声定位的进化。他们假设动力飞行和喉部回声定位在不同的手翼滑翔机谱系中进化而来。我们注意到化石、特征进化和发育证据与他们的假设相矛盾，我们测试了他们的手翼滑翔模型，发现它在空气动力学上是不可信的。我们的结论是，蝙蝠进化的传统观点(飞行和喉部回声定位是从所有蝙蝠的共同祖先进化而来的，后者在翼足目动物中消失了)比提出的新假设更可信。

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Mammal Review 生物-动物学

CiteScore

12.20

自引率

4.10%

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审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Mammal Review is the official scientific periodical of the Mammal Society, and covers all aspects of mammalian biology and ecology, including behavioural ecology, biogeography, conservation, ecology, ethology, evolution, genetics, human ecology, management, morphology, and taxonomy. We publish Reviews drawing together information from various sources in the public domain for a new synthesis or analysis of mammalian biology; Predictive Reviews using quantitative models to provide insights into mammalian biology; Perspectives presenting original views on any aspect of mammalian biology; Comments in response to papers published in Mammal Review; and Short Communications describing new findings or methods in mammalian biology.