title: Phylogenetics: bats united, microbats divided.
abstract: Phylogenetic analyses on four new bat genomes provide convincing support for the placement of bats relative to other placental mammals, suggest that microbats are an unnatural group, and have important implications for understanding the evolution of echolocation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA. Electronic address: mark.springer@ucr.edu.
authors.forename: Mark S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Springer
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D002685:Chiroptera / Q000235:genetics*; D010802:Phylogeny