For each gene, we characterised the distribution of sequence convergence between pairs of branches in the species phylogeny following the approach described by Castoe et al. (2009) implemented in the ...

Although the anatomical differences in echolocation in bats and whales are strong evidence of independent evolution, recent research has found that several genes involved in hearing are nearly ...

Only some bats and toothed whales rely on sophisticated echolocation, in which they emit sonar pulses and process returning echoes, to detect and track down small prey. Now, two new studies show that ...