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• Springer, M.S., Teeling, E.C., Madsen, O., Stanhope, M.J. & de Jong, W.W. 2001. Integrated fossil and molecular data reconstruct bat echolocation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 98(11): 6241–6246. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.111551998 Reference page. 

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• Teeling, E.C., Madsen, O., Van Den Bussche, R.A., de Jong, W.W., Stanhope, M.J. & Springer, M.S. 2002. Microbat paraphyly and the convergent evolution of a key innovation in Old World rhinolophoid microbats. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 99(3): 1431–1436. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.022477199 Reference page. 
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• Teeling, E.C., Madsen, O., Murphy, W.J., Springer, M.S. & O’Brien, S.J. 2003. Nuclear gene sequences confirm an ancient link between New Zealand short-tailed bats and South American noctilionoid bats. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 28(2): 308–319. DOI: 10.1016/S1055-7903(03)00117-9 Reference page. 
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• Teeling, E.C., Dool, S. & Springer, M.S. 2012. Phylogenies, fossils and functional genes: the evolution of echolocation in bats. pp. 1–22, in Gunnell, G.F. & Simmons, N.B. (Eds.) Evolutionary History of Bats: Fossils, Molecules and Morphology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.