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List of works by Liliana M. Davalos

A cluster of olfactory receptor genes linked to frugivory in bats

scientific article published on 16 January 2014

A coalescent-based estimator of genetic drift, and acoustic divergence in the Pteronotus parnellii species complex

scientific article published on 17 August 2018

A new species of Lonchophylla (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from the eastern Andes of northwestern South America

scientific article published in 2008

A solution to the challenges of interdisciplinary aggregation and use of specimen-level trait data

scientific article published in 2022

Accounting for molecular stochasticity in systematic revisions: species limits and phylogeny of Paroaria

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Amino acid transporter expansions associated with the evolution of obligate endosymbiosis in sap-feeding insects (Hemiptera: sternorrhyncha)

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Bat Biology, Genomes, and the Bat1K Project: To Generate Chromosome-Level Genomes for all Living Bat Species

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Bats (Chiroptera: Noctilionoidea) Challenge a Recent Origin of Extant Neotropical Diversity.

scientific article published on 10 February 2016

Bayesian hierarchical models suggest oldest known plant-visiting bat was omnivorous

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Cochlea development shapes bat sensory system evolution

Curb land grabbing to save the Amazon

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Deglaciation explains bat extinction in the Caribbean

scientific article (publication date: December 2012)

Detecting the immune system response of a 500 year-old Inca mummy.

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Disabusing cocaine: pervasive myths and enduring realities of a globalised commodity.

scientific article published on 02 December 2008

Discovery and biological confirmation of a highly divergent Tacaribe virus in metatranscriptomic data from neotropical bats

scientific article published on 11 September 2024

Dynamic recruitment of amino acid transporters to the insect/symbiont interface.

scientific article published on 16 February 2014

Eating down the food chain: generalism is not an evolutionary dead end for herbivores

scientific article published on 16 January 2018

Ecological constraints on highly evolvable olfactory receptor genes and morphology in neotropical bats

scientific article published in 2022

Evaluating the performance of targeted sequence capture, RNA-Seq, and degenerate-primer PCR cloning for sequencing the largest mammalian multigene family

scientific article published on 03 October 2019

Evolutionary potential of the monkeypox genome arising from interactions with human APOBEC3 enzymes

Exploring population genetic structure in three species of Lesser Antillean bats

scientific article published on 01 September 2004

Expressed Vomeronasal Type-1 Receptors (V1rs) in Bats Uncover Conserved Sequences Underlying Social Chemical Signaling

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Fires in protected areas reveal unforeseen costs of Colombian peace

scientific article published on 26 November 2018

Forests, coca, and conflict: grass frontier dynamics and deforestation in the Amazon-Andes

peer reviewed, open access article published in Journal of Illicit Economies and Development

From the field to the lab: best practices for field preservation of bat specimens for molecular analyses.

scientific article published on 23 March 2015

Fruit odorants mediate co-specialization in a multispecies plant–animal mutualism

scientific article published on 10 August 2021

Insights into mammalian TE diversity through the curation of 248 genome assemblies

Integrating incomplete fossils by isolating conflicting signal in saturated and non-independent morphological characters

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Integrating remotely sensed fires for predicting deforestation for REDD.

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Keeping it simple: flowering plants tend to retain, and revert to, simple leaves.

scientific article published on 16 November 2011

Large‐scale genome sampling reveals unique immunity and metabolic adaptations in bats

scientific article published in 2021

Molecular evolution of growth hormone and insulin-like growth factor 1 receptors in long-lived, small-bodied mammals

scientific article published on 24 July 2014

Molecular phylogeny of funnel-eared bats (Chiroptera: Natalidae), with notes on biogeography and conservation.

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Morphological innovation, diversification and invasion of a new adaptive zone

scientific article (publication date: 7 May 2012)

Morphology and niche evolution influence hummingbird speciation rates

scientific article published in 2023

Multifactorial processes underlie parallel opsin loss in neotropical bats

scientific article published on 18 December 2018

Parallel Molecular Evolution in Pathways, Genes, and Sites in High-Elevation Hummingbirds Revealed by Comparative Transcriptomics

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Pervasive Genomic Signatures of Local Adaptation to Altitude Across Highland Specialist Andean Hummingbird Populations

scientific article published in 2021

Phylogeny and Divergence Times of Lemurs Inferred with Recent and Ancient Fossils in the Tree.

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Protocols for the Molecular Evolutionary Analysis of Membrane Protein Gene Duplicates

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Recent extinctions disturb path to equilibrium diversity in Caribbean bats

scientific article published on 09 January 2017

Robust evidence for bats as reservoir hosts is lacking in most African virus studies: a review and call to optimize sampling and conserve bats

Saturation and base composition bias explain phylogenomic conflict in Plasmodium.

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Selection for mechanical advantage underlies multiple cranial optima in new world leaf-nosed bats

scientific article published on 20 March 2014

Six reference-quality genomes reveal evolution of bat adaptations

scientific article published on 22 July 2020

The allometry of daily energy expenditure in hummingbirds: An energy budget approach

scientific article published on 05 February 2020

The macroevolutionary impact of recent and imminent mammal extinctions on Madagascar

scientific article published in 2023

The nature and dynamics of bacterial genomes.

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Trpc2 pseudogenization dynamics in bats reveal ancestral vomeronasal signaling, then pervasive loss.

scientific article published on 27 January 2017

Updated distribution maps for neotropical bats in the superfamily Noctilionoidea

scientific article published on 13 August 2018