Digest: Repeated body size evolution in island bats
 

Digest: Repeated body size evolution in island bats

Evolution, Vol.78(7), pp.1349-1350
01/07/2024
Ecology Environmental Sciences & Ecology Evolutionary Biology Genetics & Heredity Life Sciences & Biomedicine Science & Technology
Island ecosystems represent outstanding natural laboratories for studying the interplay between ecology and evolution. In this issue, use genomic approaches to identify a remarkable example of repeated evolution in Hipposideros bats across the Solomon Islands archipelago. They show that larger-bodied bats have independently evolved on different islands, highlighting an exciting new system for exploring the ecological and evolutionary drivers of repeated evolution in mammals.

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https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpae069
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