Bats that walk: A new evolutionary hypothesis for the terrestrial behaviour of New Zealand's endemic mystacinids

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Hand, Suzanne J ^a   Weisbecker, Vera ^b,c   Beck, Robin Md ^a   Archer, Michael ^a   Godthelp, Henk ^a   Tennyson, Alan Jd ^d   Worthy, Trevor H ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^d MUSEUM OF NEW ZEALAND TE PAPA TONGAREWA   (New Zealand)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BAT; GAIT; GENETIC SELECTION; HUMERUS; LOCOMOTION; MIDDLE MIOCENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PREDATOR; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; WALKING; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; FLYING; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; NEW ZEALAND; PHYSIOLOGY;

AVES; DESMODUS ROTUNDUS; MAMMALIA; MYSTACINA; MYSTACINA TUBERCULATA; MYSTACINIDAE;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; EVOLUTION; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; FOSSILS; HUMERUS; NEW ZEALAND; WALKING;

EID: 69249129136     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-9-169     Document Type: Article

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