Bat Biology, Genomes, and the Bat1K Project: To Generate Chromosome-Level Genomes for All Living Bat Species

Annual Review of Animal Biosciences

Volumn 6, Issue , 2018, Pages 23-46

  Teeling, Emma C ^a   Vernes, Sonja C ^b,c   Dávalos, Liliana M ^d   Ray, David A ^e   Gilbert, M Thomas P ^f,g   Myers, Eugene ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^g NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^h MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Echolocation; Ecosystem; Flight; Immunity; Longevity; Mammals

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CHROMOSOME; ECHOLOCATION; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNITY; LONGEVITY; MALE; ORGANIZATION; PHENOTYPE; PUBLICATION; SCIENTIST; WRITING; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BAT; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METHODOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHIROPTERA; GENOME; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 85042279584     PISSN: 21658102     EISSN: 21658110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-animal-022516-022811     Document Type: Article

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