Bats Related to Whales? 4-6-2013 by Paul Giem
Channel: ItIsAboutGod
Date: 2013-04-07

Bats and toothed whales both use ultrasound to navigate and detect objects. They also share amino acid sequences for the gene Prestin. This leads to an interesting cladogram. Reasons for the shared sequences, and their implication for the use of cladograms in general, were discussed.

(1) http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100125123219.htm 
(2) http://www.evolutionnews.org/2012/12/bothersome_bats067121.html
(3) http://www.umich.edu/~zhanglab/publications/2010/Comment_Li_2010_CurrBiol.pdf