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Four New Bat Species (Rhinolophus hildebrandtii Complex) Reflect Plio-Pleistocene Divergence of Dwarfs and Giants across an Afromontane Archipelago

Gigantism and dwarfism evolve in vertebrates restricted to islands. We describe four new species in the Rhinolophus hildebrandtii species-complex of horseshoe bats, whose evolution has entailed adaptive shifts in body size. We postulate that vicissitudes of palaeoenvironments resulted in gigantism a...

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Autori principali: Taylor, Peter J., Stoffberg, Samantha, Monadjem, Ara, Schoeman, Martinus Corrie, Bayliss, Julian, Cotterill, Fenton P. D.
Natura: Artigo
Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: Public Library of Science 2012
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3440430/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22984399
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0041744
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