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  • 1
    Publication Date: 2010-08-21
    Description: Laryngeal echolocation, used by most living bats to form images of their surroundings and to detect and capture flying prey, is considered to be a key innovation for the evolutionary success of bats, and palaeontologists have long sought osteological correlates of echolocation that can be used to infer the behaviour of fossil bats. Veselka et al. argued that the most reliable trait indicating echolocation capabilities in bats is an articulation between the stylohyal bone (part of the hyoid apparatus that supports the throat and larynx) and the tympanic bone, which forms the floor of the middle ear. They examined the oldest and most primitive known bat, Onychonycteris finneyi (early Eocene, USA), and argued that it showed evidence of this stylohyal-tympanic articulation, from which they concluded that O. finneyi may have been capable of echolocation. We disagree with their interpretation of key fossil data and instead argue that O. finneyi was probably not an echolocating bat.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Simmons, Nancy B -- Seymour, Kevin L -- Habersetzer, Jorg -- Gunnell, Gregg F -- England -- Nature. 2010 Aug 19;466(7309):E8; discussion E9. doi: 10.1038/nature09219.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, New York 10024, USA. simmons@amnh.org〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20724993" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animal Structures/physiology ; Animals ; Bone and Bones/physiology ; Chiroptera/anatomy & histology/*physiology ; Echolocation/*physiology ; *Fossils ; Models, Biological ; Reproducibility of Results
    Print ISSN: 0028-0836
    Electronic ISSN: 1476-4687
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  • 2
    Publication Date: 2008-02-14
    Description: Bats (Chiroptera) represent one of the largest and most diverse radiations of mammals, accounting for one-fifth of extant species. Although recent studies unambiguously support bat monophyly and consensus is rapidly emerging about evolutionary relationships among extant lineages, the fossil record of bats extends over 50 million years, and early evolution of the group remains poorly understood. Here we describe a new bat from the Early Eocene Green River Formation of Wyoming, USA, with features that are more primitive than seen in any previously known bat. The evolutionary pathways that led to flapping flight and echolocation in bats have been in dispute, and until now fossils have been of limited use in documenting transitions involved in this marked change in lifestyle. Phylogenetically informed comparisons of the new taxon with other bats and non-flying mammals reveal that critical morphological and functional changes evolved incrementally. Forelimb anatomy indicates that the new bat was capable of powered flight like other Eocene bats, but ear morphology suggests that it lacked their echolocation abilities, supporting a 'flight first' hypothesis for chiropteran evolution. The shape of the wings suggests that an undulating gliding-fluttering flight style may be primitive for bats, and the presence of a long calcar indicates that a broad tail membrane evolved early in Chiroptera, probably functioning as an additional airfoil rather than as a prey-capture device. Limb proportions and retention of claws on all digits indicate that the new bat may have been an agile climber that employed quadrupedal locomotion and under-branch hanging behaviour.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Simmons, Nancy B -- Seymour, Kevin L -- Habersetzer, Jorg -- Gunnell, Gregg F -- England -- Nature. 2008 Feb 14;451(7180):818-21. doi: 10.1038/nature06549.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, New York 10024, USA. simmons@amnh.org〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18270539" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; *Biological Evolution ; Chiroptera/*anatomy & histology/classification/*physiology ; Cochlea/anatomy & histology/physiology ; Echolocation/*physiology ; Extremities/anatomy & histology/physiology ; Flight, Animal/*physiology ; Fossils ; History, Ancient ; Phylogeny ; Rivers ; Wyoming
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    Publication Date: 2013-08-10
    Description: Tree-building with diverse data maximizes explanatory power. Application of molecular clock models to ancient speciation events risks a bias against detection of fast radiations subsequent to the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) event. Contrary to Springer et al., post-K-Pg placental diversification does not require "virus-like" substitution rates. Even constraining clade ages to their model, the explosive model best explains placental evolution.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉O'Leary, Maureen A -- Bloch, Jonathan I -- Flynn, John J -- Gaudin, Timothy J -- Giallombardo, Andres -- Giannini, Norberto P -- Goldberg, Suzann L -- Kraatz, Brian P -- Luo, Zhe-Xi -- Meng, Jin -- Ni, Xijun -- Novacek, Michael J -- Perini, Fernando A -- Randall, Zachary -- Rougier, Guillermo W -- Sargis, Eric J -- Silcox, Mary T -- Simmons, Nancy B -- Spaulding, Michelle -- Velazco, Paul M -- Weksler, Marcelo -- Wible, John R -- Cirranello, Andrea L -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2013 Aug 9;341(6146):613. doi: 10.1126/science.1238162.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Anatomical Sciences, HSC T-8 (040), Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-8081, USA. maureen.oleary@stonybrook.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23929968" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; *Biological Evolution ; Female ; *Fossils ; *Mammals ; *Phylogeny ; Pregnancy
    Print ISSN: 0036-8075
    Electronic ISSN: 1095-9203
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    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
    Publication Date: 2005-02-01
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Simmons, Nancy B -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2005 Jan 28;307(5709):527-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Division of Vertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024, USA. simmons@amnh.org〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15681371" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; *Biological Evolution ; Chiroptera/anatomy & histology/*classification/*genetics/physiology ; Echolocation ; Flight, Animal ; Fossils ; *Phylogeny ; Predatory Behavior
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  • 5
    Publication Date: 2013-02-09
    Description: To discover interordinal relationships of living and fossil placental mammals and the time of origin of placentals relative to the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary, we scored 4541 phenomic characters de novo for 86 fossil and living species. Combining these data with molecular sequences, we obtained a phylogenetic tree that, when calibrated with fossils, shows that crown clade Placentalia and placental orders originated after the K-Pg boundary. Many nodes discovered using molecular data are upheld, but phenomic signals overturn molecular signals to show Sundatheria (Dermoptera + Scandentia) as the sister taxon of Primates, a close link between Proboscidea (elephants) and Sirenia (sea cows), and the monophyly of echolocating Chiroptera (bats). Our tree suggests that Placentalia first split into Xenarthra and Epitheria; extinct New World species are the oldest members of Afrotheria.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉O'Leary, Maureen A -- Bloch, Jonathan I -- Flynn, John J -- Gaudin, Timothy J -- Giallombardo, Andres -- Giannini, Norberto P -- Goldberg, Suzann L -- Kraatz, Brian P -- Luo, Zhe-Xi -- Meng, Jin -- Ni, Xijun -- Novacek, Michael J -- Perini, Fernando A -- Randall, Zachary S -- Rougier, Guillermo W -- Sargis, Eric J -- Silcox, Mary T -- Simmons, Nancy B -- Spaulding, Michelle -- Velazco, Paul M -- Weksler, Marcelo -- Wible, John R -- Cirranello, Andrea L -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2013 Feb 8;339(6120):662-7. doi: 10.1126/science.1229237.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Anatomical Sciences, School of Medicine, HSC T-8 (040), Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-8081, USA. maureen.oleary@stonybrook.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23393258" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Base Sequence ; *Biological Evolution ; Dentition ; Ecosystem ; Extinction, Biological ; Female ; *Fossils ; *Mammals/anatomy & histology/classification/genetics ; Paleodontology ; *Phylogeny ; Phylogeography ; Placenta ; Pregnancy ; Sequence Alignment ; Time ; Xenarthra/anatomy & histology/classification/genetics
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  • 6
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    Calcified tissue international 5 (1970), S. 206-221 
    ISSN: 1432-0827
    Keywords: Teleosts ; Calcium ; Tetracycline ; Bone Formation
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine , Physics
    Description / Table of Contents: Résumé La croissance osseuse et le métabolisme du calcium sont étudiés chezOpsanus tau marin, à os acellulaire, à l'aide de marquages à la tétracycline et45Ca, injectés par voie intra-musculaire pendant 26 jours. La localisation du marquage au niveau des vertèbres est initialement plus rapide au niveau des maxillaires, mais le pourcentage de rétention du45Ca au niveau de ces tissus, en se basant sur des grammes de cendres, n'est pas significativement différent après 4–6 heures. C'est le temps au bout duquel l'analyse microdensitométrique d'autoradiographies par contact des coupes de maxillaires indique un maximum d'absorption de45Ca au niveau de toutes les surfaces corticales osseuses. Aucune perte de45Ca des surfaces osseuses n'est mise en évidence durant les 14 jours suivants. Les différences d'absorption du45Ca dans ces tissus semblent liées aux surfaces osseuses relatives, plutôt qu'aux différences du contenu minéral par unité de volume d'os. Des essais de mesure de l'apposition osseuse par séparation de deux injections de tétracycline, à des intervalles de 18 jours, furent réalisés sans succès et une seule bande fluorescente sous-périostée, de 8–9 μ de large a été observée. Ce fait est probablement lié à la vitesse d'excrétion sanguine très lente de l'os, d'environ 0.2–0.3 μ par jour. La chute de la radioactivité du plasma est presqu'inversement proportionnelle au temps après injection. Aucun marquage diffus n'a pu être localisé, sans doute, par suite de l'absence d'ostéocytes, de lacunes et de canalicules qui, dans l'os cellulaire, facilite la diffusion des ions calciques du liquide extracellulaire vers les cristaux osseux situés profondément dans le squelette. Le composé diffus, s'il est présent, constitue moins d'un cinquième de ce que l'on s'attend à trouver dans l'os cellulaire.
    Abstract: Zusammenfassung Das Knochenwachstum und der Calciummetabolismus wurden beim knochenzellosen marinen Krötenfisch (Opsanus tau) während 26 Tagen anhand von Tetracyclin- und45Ca-Markierung verfolgt. Die Aufnahme des Isotopes erfolgte vorerst rascher in den Wirbelkörpern als in den Kieferknochen, jedoch war die prozentuale Retention von45Ca, auf das Aschegewicht bezogen, in diesen Geweben nach 4–6 Std nicht signifikant verschieden. Nach dieser Zeit konnte anhand von mikrodensitometrischen Untersuchungen von Kieferschnitt-Autoradiographien festgestellt werden, daß in allen Corticalis-Oberflächen die maximale45Ca-Aufnahme stattgefunden hatte. Während der folgenden 14 Tage konnte kein45Ca-Verlust von den Knochenoberflächen nachgewiesen werden. Die Unterschiede der45Ca-Aufnahme in diesen Geweben scheinen eher mit der relativen Oberflächengröße der Knochen als mit dem Mineralgehalt pro Knochenvolumen in Zusammenhang zu stehen. Versuche, die angelagerte Knochenschicht durch zwei, im Abstand von 18 Tagen vorgenommene Tetracyclin-Markierungen zu messen, verliefen ergebnislos; es konnte nur eine einzige 8–9 μ dicke, subperiostale Fluoreszenzschicht beobachtet werden. Dies war vermutlich einer sehr langsamen Abnahme des Tetracyclins im Blut, verbunden mit einer stark verlangsamten Knochenbildung von nur 0,2–0,3 μ pro Tag zuzuschreiben. Die Abnahme der Radioaktivität im Plasma war beinahe umgekehrt proportional zur Zeitspanne seit der Injektion. Dies ist vermutlich auf das Fehlen von Osteocyten, Lacunae und Canaliculi zurückzuführen, die ja im zellulären Knochen eine Diffusion von Calciumionen aus der Extrazellulärflüssigkeit zu den tiefer im Skelett liegenden Knochenkristallen ermöglichen. Wenn eine diffuse Komponente vorlag, so betrug sie weniger als ⅕ der für zellulären Knochen erwarteten.
    Notes: Abstract Bone growth and calcium metabolism were studied in marine acellular-boned toadfish (Opsanus tau) by tetracycline and by45Ca labeling over a 26-day period. The uptake of tracer in vertebrae was initially faster than in the jaws, but the percent retention of45Ca on a gram ash basis in these tissues was not significantly different after 4–6 hours. This was the time at which microdensitometric analysis of contact autoradiographs of jaw sections indicated that peak45Ca uptake had occurred on all cortical bone surfaces. No loss of45Ca from bone surfaces was detected during the next 14 days. The differences in45Ca uptake in these tissues appeared to be related to the relative surface areas of bone rather than to differences in mineral content per unit volume of bone. Attempts to measure appositional bone growth by the separation of two tetracycline labels administered at an interval of 18 days were unsuccessful, and only a single subperiosteal fluorescent band 8–9 μ thick was observed. This was probably the result of a very low rate of excretion of tetracycline from the blood, together with a very low appositional rate of bone growth of only 0.2–0.3 μ/day. The fall in the plasma radioactivity was almost inversely proportional to time since injection. No diffuse labeling could be detected, due presumably to the absence of osteocytes, in lacunae and canaliculi which, in cellular bone, permits diffusion of calcium ions from extracellular fluid to bone crystals deep within the skeleton. The diffuse component, if present, was less than one-fifth that expected in cellular bone.
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