Dimitrios ‐ Georgios Kontopoulos

Reference genomes and fossils revise bat family phylogeny and biogeography

Abstract Bats are extraordinary among mammals, having uniquely evolved powered flight and laryngeal echolocation, along with disease resistance, extended healthspans and the ability to hibernate 1 . However, the evolutionary history of bats and the understanding of these adaptati...

Lack of evidence for gene-level convergence linked to evolutionary shifts in torpor among placental mammals

Torpor is a key survival strategy that many avian and mammalian lineages evolved in response to challenging environmental conditions. Whether the independent evolution of torpor in different lineages involved changes in the same genes remains poorly understood. Here, we performed...