Echolocation in soft-furred tree mice

作者：Kai He, Qi Liu, Dongming Xu, Fei-Yan Qi, Jing Bai, Shui-Wang He, Peng Chen, Xin Zhou, Wanzhi Cai, Zhongzheng Chen, Zhen Liu, Xuelong Jiang, Peng Shi · 发表于：Science · 年份：2021 · DOI：10.1126/science.aay1513 · 被引用次数：61 · 研究领域：Bat Biology and Ecology Studies、Marine animal studies overview、Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior

New echolocator Echolocation is a well demonstrated convergent sensory mode in bats and toothed whales. These lineages are not closely related, and this sense might be more broadly distributed than we recognize. Using a suite of approaches, He et al. show that the lineage of soft-furred tree mice (genus Typhlomys ) includes multiple echolocators. Clear evidence of the behavioral use of echolocation under fully dark conditions was supported by the convergence of ear bone morphology and hearing-related genes with other echolocating mammals. Science , aay1513, this issue p. eaay1513