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Symposium 14: Bats as a model for understanding mechanisms underpinning evolutionary innovations
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Organizer: Huabin Zhao (Wuhan University)
Bats account for around 20% of extant mammal species and represent one of the world's most fascinating yet least-understood animals. They are mammals but possess many unique features distinctive from other mammals, such as powered flight, laryngeal echolocation, exceptional longevity, and sophisticated immune system conferring greater capacity to co-exist with many deadly viruses. Meanwhile, bats exhibit enormous diversity in diet, behaviour, and morphological and physiological traits. In this symposium, we attempt to share new discoveries to understand mechanisms underpinning the evolutionary innovations that have generated enormous diversity using bats as a model study group.

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