{"id":2396,"date":"2019-05-18T17:51:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T00:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/?p=2396"},"modified":"2021-03-26T14:59:13","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T21:59:13","slug":"new-paper-adaptive-shifts-in-skull-shape-evolution-in-bats-signatures-of-echolocation-and-dietary-ecology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/new-paper-adaptive-shifts-in-skull-shape-evolution-in-bats-signatures-of-echolocation-and-dietary-ecology\/","title":{"rendered":"New paper!! Adaptive shifts in skull shape evolution in bats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/uw-s3-cdn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/01110447\/WEB-2-bat-skulls-750x500.jpg\" alt=\"An image of two bat skulls.\"\/><figcaption>Skulls of a common blossom bat,\u00a0<em>Syconycteris australis<\/em>\u00a0(left) and a grey-headed flying fox,\u00a0<em>Pteropus poliocephalus<\/em>(right). <em>Dennis Wise\/University of Washington<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In a new and exciting <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"new paper (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-019-09951-y\" target=\"_blank\">paper<\/a> in Nature Communications, we present the results of phylogenetic comparative analyses across hundreds of bat species, and demonstrate how two major forces \u2013echolocation and diet\u2013 shaped the diversity of bat skulls over their evolutionary history.  Check out this <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"press release (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washington.edu\/news\/2019\/05\/02\/bats-evolved-diverse-skull-shapes-due-to-echolocation-diet\/\" target=\"_blank\">press release<\/a> highlighting the main results of the paper, and the methods we used!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new and exciting paper in Nature Communications, we present the results of phylogenetic comparative analyses across hundreds of bat species, and demonstrate how two major forces \u2013echolocation and diet\u2013 shaped the diversity of bat skulls over their evolutionary history. Check out this press release highlighting the main results of the paper, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,36,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2396"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3167,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396\/revisions\/3167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}