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Genomics insights into the evolutionary success of bats
1. The genomics of why there are so many species of
bats
Liliana M. Dávalos + the Bat1K Team
BAT1K Break-Out Session
Rockefeller University 29 August 2019
2. The genomics of why there are so many species of
bats
Liliana M. Dávalos + Huang Zixia, David Jebb, Martin Pippel, Graham Hughes, Ksenia
Lavrichenko, Paolo Devanna, Sylke Winkler, Lars Jermiin, Emilia Skirmuntt, Aris Katzourakis,
Lucy Burkitt-Gray, David Ray, Juliana G Roscito, Bogdan Kirilenko, Angelique P. Corthals,
Megan Power, Gareth Jones, Roger Ransome, Dina Dechmann, Andrea Locatelli, Erich
Jarvis, Mark Springer, Michael Hiller, Sonja Vernes, Eugene Myers, Emma Teeling
4. Four facts about bats
• Bats fly
• Bats are crepuscular/
nocturnal
• Bats live longer than
expected by size
• Viral pathogens
circulate among bats
• That kill other
mammals
Photo by S.J. Rossiter
5. Why are there so many
bat species?
• How to answer a
question like this?
Photo by Winifred Frick
6. The ecological theory of
adaptive radiation
Simpson 1953 Major features of evolution
Drawings by John Gould
14. Yinpterochiroptera
• No positively selected
genes
• No disproportionate
“hearing” signal
• Pre-adaptation for
constant-frequency
echolocation
• Instead, diet does
have clear signal
Photo by H. Conceção
15. back
sign
Biological process
biological adhesion
biological regulation
cell proliferation
cellular component organization or biogenesis
developmental process
immune system process
localization
metabolic process
multicellular organismal process
other
reproduction
response to stimulus
Yangochiroptera Credits: Friedrich Seidler, Marco Mello
16. back
sign
Biological process
biological adhesion
biological regulation
cell proliferation
cellular component organization or biogenesis
developmental process
immune system process
localization
metabolic process
multicellular organismal process
other
reproduction
response to stimulus
Vespertilionidae Credits: Friedrich Seidler, Jorge Espier
20. Yangochiroptera
• Several positively
selected genes
• e.g., immune
process
• Vesper positive in
metabolic process
• Signal of
hibernation?
• Diet shift also evident
in Phyllostomus
Photo by S.J. Rossiter
22. Back to the
ecological theory
• Bats fly
• Bats are crepuscular/
nocturnal
• New niche!
• Opportunity but
challenge
• “hearing”
adaptations
Photo by J. Flanders
23. Back to the
ecological theory
• Bats live longer than
expected by size
• Hibernation?
• Viral pathogens
circulate among bats
• That kill other
mammals
• Immune process
genes at origin of
bats
Photo by S.J. Rossiter