2023
Functional evidence from primitive fishes suggests spectral tuning of rhodopsin by chromophore exchange is a derived trait
In revision
Li N, Chen H, Xing L, Lei L, Rossiter SJ & Liu Y
Resurrection of ancestral sweet receptors suggests early bats were omnivorous
Science Bulletin (2023) In the press
Li Y, Jiao H, Sin SYW, Wang R, Rossiter SJ & Zhao H
Enhancing the ecological value of oil palm agriculture through set-asides
Nature Sustainability, 6, 513–525 (2023)
Bicknell JE, O’Hanley JR, Armsworth PR, Slade EM, Deere NJ, Mitchell SL, Hemprich-Bennett D, Kemp V, Rossiter SJ, Lewis OT, Coomes DA, Agama AL, Reynolds G, Struebig MJ & Davies ZG
Comparative analyses of bat genomes identify distinct evolution of immunity in Old World fruit bats
Science Advances, 9, eadd0141 (2023)
Tian S, Zeng J, Jiao H, Zhang D, Zhang L, Lei C-Q, Rossiter SJ & Zhao H
Convergent evolutionary shifts in rhodopsin retinal release explain shared opsin repertoires in monotremes and crocodilians
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 290, 20230530 (2023)
Guo J, Chi H, Zhang L, Song S, Rossiter SJ & Liu Y
Reference-quality bat genomes illuminate adaptations to viral tolerance and disease resistance
Research Square (2023) doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2557682/v1
Morales AE, Dong Y, Brown T, Baid K, Kontopoulos D, Gonzalez V, Huang Z, Ahmed A, Hilgers L, Winkler S, Hughes G, LiX, Kirilenko BM, Devanna P, Lama TM, Nissan Y, Pippel M, Dávalos LM, Vernes SC, Puechmaille SJ, Rossiter SJ , Yossi Y, Prescott JB, Kurth A, Ray DA, Lim BK , Myers E, Teeling EC, Banerjee A, Irving AT & Hiller M
Changes in trophic ecology of mobile predators in response to rainforest degradation
Journal of Applied Ecology (2023) doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14396
Kemp VA, Grey J, Hemprich-Bennett D, Rossiter SJ, Lewis OT, Wilkinson CL, Clare EL & Kratina P
Disentangling mechanical and sensory modules in the radiation of noctilionoid bats
American Naturalist (2023) doi.org/10.1086/725368
Mutumi GL, Hall RP, Hedrick BP, Yohe LR, Sadier A, Davies KTJ, Rossiter SJ, Sears KE, Dávalos LM & Dumont ER
Diversification and introgression in four chromosomal taxa of the Pearson’s horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus pearsoni) group
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 183, 107784 (2023)
Zhou W, Furey NM, Soisook P, Thong VD, Lim BK, Rossiter SJ & Mao X
2022
Safeguarding imperiled biodiversity and evolutionary processes in the Wallacea center of endemism
Bioscience, 72, 1118–1130 (2022)
Struebig MJ, Aninta SG, Beger M, Bani A, Barus H, Brace S, Davies ZG, Brauwer MD, Diele K, Djakiman C, Djamaluddin R, Drinkwater R, Dumbrell A, Evans D, Fusi M, Herrera-Alsina L, Iskandar DT, Jompa J, Lancaster L, Limmon G, Lindawati, Lo Michaela GY, Lupiyaningdyah P, McCannon M, Meijaard E, Mitchell SL, Mumbunan S, O'Connell D, Osborne OG, Papadopulos AST, Rahajoe JS, Rosaria, Rossiter SJ, Rugayah, Rustiami H, Salzmann U, Sheherazade, Made SI, Sukara E, Tasirin JS, Tjoa A, Travis JMJ, Trethowan, L, Trianto A, Utteridge T, Voigt M, Winarni N, Zakaria Z, Edwards DP, Frantz L & Supriatna J
Multiple dimensions of biodiversity in paleotropical hotspots reveal comparable bat diversity
Biotropica, 54, 1205–1216 (2022)
Tanshi I, Obitte BC, Monadjem, A, Rossiter SJ, Fisher-Phelps M & Kingston T
Ecological constraints on highly evolvable olfactory receptor genes and morphology in neotropical bats
Evolution, 76, 2347–2360 (2022)
Yohe LR, Fabbri M, Lee D, Davies KTJ, Yohe TP, Sánchez MKR, Rengifo EM, Hall RP, Mutumi G, Hedrick BP, Sadier A, Simmons NB, Sears KE, Dumont E, Rossiter SJ, Bhullar B-AS & Dávalos LM
Riparian buffers can help mitigate biodiversity declines in oil palm agriculture
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 20, 459–466 (2022)
Deere NJ, Bicknell JE, Mitchell SL, Afendy A, Baking EL, Bernard H, Chung AYC, Ewers RM, Heroin H, Joseph N, Lewis OT, Luke SH, Milne S, Fikri AH, Parrett JM, Payne M, Rossiter SJ, Vairappan CS, Vian CV, Wilkinson CL, Williamson J, Wong ABH, Slade EM, Davies ZG & Struebig MJ
The elusive role of prolactin in the sociality of the naked mole-rat
Hormones and Behavior 143, 105196 (2022)
Gilbert JD , Rossiter SJ, Bennett NC & Faulkes CG
Local‐scale temperature gradients driven by human disturbance shape the physiological and morphological traits of dung beetle communities in a Bornean oil palm–forest mosaic
Functional Ecology, 36, 1655-1667 (2022)
Williamson J, Teh E, Jucker T, Brindle M, Bush E, Chung AYC , Parrett J, Lewis OT, Rossiter SJ & Slade EM
Expert range maps of global mammal distributions harmonised to three taxonomic authorities
Journal of Biogeography, 49, 979-992 (2022)
Marsh CJ, Sica YV, Burgin CJ, Dorman WA, Anderson RC, del Toro Mijares I, Vigneron JG, Barve V, Dombrowik VL, Duong M, Guralnick R et al
The structure of tropical bat–plant interaction networks during an extreme El Niño‐Southern Oscillation event
Molecular Ecology 31, 1892-1906 (2022)
Oliveira HFM, Pinheiro RBP, Varassin IG, Rodríguez‐Herrera B, Varassin IG, Rodríguez-Herrera B, Kuzmina M, Rossiter SJ & Clare EL
Altered structure of bat–prey interaction networks in logged tropical forests revealed by metabarcoding
Molecular Ecology, 30, 5844-5857 (2021)
Hemprich‐Bennett DR, Kemp VA, Blackman J, Struebig MJ, Lewis OT, Rossiter SJ & Clare EL
Find the food first: an omnivorous sensory morphotype predates biomechanical specialization for plant based diets in phyllostomid bats
Evolution, 75, 2791-2801 (2021)
Hall RP, Mutumi GL, Hedrick BP, Yohe LR, Sadier A, Davies KT, Rossiter SJ, Sears K, Dávalos LM & Dumont ER
Interrogating phylogenetic discordance resolves deep splits in the rapid radiation of Old World fruit bats (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae)
Systematic Biology, 70, 1077-1089 (2021)
Nesi N, Tsagkogeorga G, Tsang SM, Nicolas V, Lalis A, Scanlon AT, Riesle-Sbarbaro SA, Wiantoro S, Hitch AT, Juste J, Pinzari CA, Bonaccorso FJ, Todd CM, Lim BK, Simmons NB, McGowen MR & Rossiter SJ
Nectar-feeding bats and birds show parallel molecular adaptations in sugar metabolism enzymes
Current Biology, 31, 4667-4674 (2021)
Potter JH, Drinkwater R, Davies KT, Nesi N, Lim MC, Yohe LR, Chi H, Zhang X, Levantis I, Lim BK, Witt CC, Tsagkogeorga G, dos Reis M, Liu Y, Furey W, Whitley MJ, Aksentijevic D, Dávalos LM & Rossiter SJ
Selective logging shows no impact on the dietary breadth of a generalist bat species: the fawn leaf-nosed bat (Hipposideros cervinus)
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9, 750269 (2021)
Hemprich-Bennett DR, Kemp VA, Blackman J, Lewis OT, Struebig MJ, Bernard H, Kratina P, Rossiter SJ & Clare EL
Parallel independent losses of g-type lysozyme genes in hairless aquatic mammals
Genome Biology and Evolution, 13, evab201 (2021)
X Zhang, H Chi, G Li, DM Irwin, S Zhang, SJ Rossiter & Y Liu
Vulture genomes reveal molecular adaptations underlying obligate scavenging and low levels of genetic diversity
Molecular Biology and Evolution 38, 3649-3663 (2021)
Zou D, Tian S, Zhang T, Zhuoma N, Wu G, Wang M, Dong L, Rossiter SJ & Zhao H
Dietary diversification and specialization in neotropical bats facilitated by early molecular evolution
Molecular Biology and Evolution 38, 3864-3883 (2021)
Potter JH, Davies KT, Yohe LR, Sanchez MK, Rengifo EM, Struebig M, Warren K, Tsagkogeorga G, Lim BK, Dos Reis M & Dávalos LM
Dung beetles as samplers of mammals in Malaysian Borneo—a test of high throughput metabarcoding of iDNAR
PeerJ 9, e11897, 8 (2021)
Drinkwater R, Williamson J, Clare EL , Chung AYC, Rossiter SJ & Slade EM
Leech blood‐meal invertebrate‐derived DNA reveals differences in Bornean mammal diversity across habitats
Molecular Ecology, 30, 3299-3312 (2021)
Drinkwater R, Jucker T, Potter JH, Swinfield T, Coomes DA, Slade EM, Gilbert MT, Lewis OT, Bernard H, Struebig MJ & Clare EL
Assessing the impact of taxon resolution on network structure
Ecology, 102, e03256 (2021)
Hemprich‐Bennett DR, Oliveira HF, Le Comber SC, Rossiter SJ & Clare EL
Population genetic structure in the insular Ryukyu flying fox, Pteropus dasymallus
Biotropica (2021)
Chen S-F, Juan C-H, Rossiter SJ, Kinjo T, Fukui D, Kawai K, Tsang SM, Veluz MJ, Jang-Liaw NH, Osawa K, Ko W-Y & Izawa M
2020
Adapt or live: adaptation, convergent Evolution, and plesiomorphy
In: Phyllostomid Bats: A Unique Mammalian Radiation (Eds. TH Fleming, LM Dávalos, MAR Mello) University of Chicago Press, Chicago (2020)
Dávalos LM, Cirranello AL, Dumont ER, Rossiter SJ & Rojas D
Assessing the impact of taxon resolution on network structure
Ecology, e03256 (2020)
Hemprich‐Bennett DR, Oliveira HFM, Le Comber SC, Rossiter SJ & Clare EL
Leech blood‐meal iDNA reveals differences in Bornean mammal diversity across habitats
Molecular Ecology (2020) doi.org/10.1111/mec.15724
Drinkwater R, Jucker T, Potter JHT, Swinfield T, Coomes DA, Slade EM, Gilbert MTP, Lewis OT, Bernard H, Struebig MJ, Clare EL & Rossiter SJ
The relationship between individual phenotype and the division of labour in naked mole-rats: it’s complicated
PeerJ 8, e9891 (2020)
Gilbert JD, Rossiter SJ & Faulkes CG
Riparian buffers act as microclimatic refugia in oil palm landscapes
Journal of Applied Ecology 58, 431-442 (2020)
Williamson J, Slade EM, Luke SH, Swinfield T, Chung AYC, Coomes DA, Heroin H, Jucker T, Lewis OT, Vairappan CS, Rossiter SJ & Struebig MJ
Echolocation call frequency variation in horseshoe bats: molecular basis revealed by comparative transcriptomics
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 28, 20200875 (2020)
Sun H, Chen W, Wang J, Zhang L, Rossiter SJ & Mao X
Genome-wide data reveal discordant mitonuclear introgression in the intermediate horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus affinis)
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 150, 106886 (2020)
Mao X & Rossiter SJ
Convergent molecular evolution among ash species resistant to the emerald ash borer
Nature Ecology and Evolution, 4, 1116–1128 (2020)
Kelly LJ, Plumb WJ, Carey DW, Mason ME, Cooper ED, Crowther W, Whittemore AT, Rossiter SJ, Koch JL & Buggs RJA
Wing morphology predicts individual niche specialization in Pteronotus mesoamericanus (Mammalia: Chiroptera)
PLoS ONE, 5, e0232601 (2020)
Oliveira HFM, Camargo NF, Hemprich-Bennett DR, Rodríguez-Herrera B, Rossiter SJ & Clare EL
Phylogenomic resolution of the cetacean tree of life using target sequence capture
Systematic Biology, 69, 479-501 (2020)
McGowen MR, Tsagkogeorga G, Álvarez-Carretero S, dos Reis M, Struebig M, Deaville R, Jepson PD, Jarman S, Polanowski A, Morin PA & Rossiter SJ
Foraging shifts and visual preadaptation in ecologically diverse bats
Molecular Ecology, 29, 1839-1859 (2020)
Davies KTJ, Yohe LR, Almonte J, Sanchez MKR, Rengifo EM, Dumont ER, Sears KE, Dávalos LM & Rossiter SJ
Convergent spectral shifts to blue-green vision in mammals extends the known sensitivity of vertebrate M/LWS pigments.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 117, 8303-8305 (2020)
Chi H, Cui Y, Rossiter SJ & Liu Y
Positive selection and inactivation in the vision and hearing genes of cetaceans
Molecular Biology and Evolution, 37, 2069–2083 (2020)
McGowen MR, Tsagkogeorga G, Williamson J, Morin PA & Rossiter SJ
Occurrence of blood‐feeding terrestrial leeches (Haemadipsidae) in a degraded forest ecosystem and their potential as ecological indicators.
Biotropica, 52, 302-312 (2020)
Drinkwater R, Williamson J, Swinfield T, Deere NJ, Struebig MJ, Clare EL, Coomes D & Rossiter SJ
Evolutionary history of the European free-tailed-bat, a tropical affinity species spanning across the Mediterranean Basin
Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 58, 499-518 (2020)
Amorim F, Razgour O, Matta V, Lopes S, Godinho R, Ibáñez C, Juste J, Rossiter SJ, Beja P & Rebelo H
Bat conservation and zoonotic disease risk: a research agenda to prevent misguided persecution in the aftermath of COVID‐19
Animal Conservation, 24, 303-307 (2020)
Rocha R, Aziz SA, Brook CE, Carvalho WD, Cooper‐Bohannon R, Frick WF, Huang JC, Kingston T, López‐Baucells A, Maas B, Mathews F, Medellin RA, Olival KJ, Peel AJ, Plowright RK, Razgour O, Rebelo H, Rodrigues L, Rossiter SJ, Russo D, Straka TM, Teeling EC, Treuer T, Voigt CC & Webala PW
Evaluating the performance of targeted sequence capture, RNA‐Seq, and degenerate‐primer PCR cloning for sequencing the largest mammalian multigene family
Molecular Ecology Resources, 20, 140-153 (2020)
Yohe LR, Davies KTJ, Simmons NB, Sears KE, Dumont ER, Rossiter SJ & Dávalos LM
2019
Best practice for tissue collection of bats for -omics analyses
Journal for Visualized Research, 152, e59505 (2019)
Yohe LR, Baas L, Davies, KTJ, Potter J, Rossiter SJ, Teeling E, Venes S & Dávalos LM
Resolving evolutionary relationships among six closely related taxa of the horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus) with targeted resequencing data
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 139, 106551 (2019)
Mao X, Tsagkogeorga G, Thong VD & Rossiter SJ
Expressed vomeronasal type-1 receptors (V1rs) in bats uncover conserved sequences underlying social chemical signaling
Genome Biology and Evolution, 11, 2741-2749 (2019)
Yohe LR, Davies KTJ, Rossiter SJ & Dávalos LM
Scotopic rod vision in tetrapods arose from multiple early adaptive shifts in the rate of retinal release
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 116, 12627-12628 (2019)
Liu Y, Cui Y, Chi H, Xia Y, Liu H, Rossiter SJ & Zhang S
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Csorba G, Hutson AM, Rossiter SJ and Burgin C (2019)
In: Handbook of the Mammals of the World: 9. Chiroptera (eds. RA Mittermeier & DE Wilson)
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Degenerative expansion of a young supergene
Molecular Biology and Evolution, 36, 553-561 (2019)
Stolle E, Pracana R, Howard P, Paris CI, Brown SJ, Castillo-Carrillo CA, Rossiter SJ & Wurm Y
Using metabarcoding to compare the suitability of two blood‐feeding leech species for sampling mammalian diversity in North Borneo
Molecular Ecology Resources, 19, 105-117 (2019)
Drinkwater R, Bærholm Schnell I, Bohmann K, Bernard H, Veron G, Clare E, Gilbert MTP & Rossiter SJ
Morphological diversification under high integration in a hyper diverse mammal clade
Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 27, 563-575 (2019)
Hedrick PB, Mutumi, GL, Munteanu VD, Sadier A, Davies KTJ, Rossiter SJ, Sears KE, Davalos LM & Dumont E
2018
Multifactorial processes underlie parallel opsin loss in neotropical bats
eLife, 7, e37412 (2018)
Sadier A, Davies KTJ, Yohe LR, Yun K, Donat P, Hedrick PB, Dumont ER, Dávalos LM, Rossiter SJ & Sears KE
As blind as a bat? Opsin phylogenetics illuminates the evolution of color vision in bats
Molecular Biology and Evolution, 36, 54-68 (2018)
Simões BF, Foley NM, Hughes GM, Zhao H, Zhang S, Rossiter SJ & Teeling EC
Limited evidence for parallel molecular adaptations associated with the subterranean niche in mammals: a comparative study of three superorders
Molecular Biology and Evolution, 35, 2544–2559 (2018)
Davies KTJ, Bennett NC, Faulkes CG & Rossiter SJ
Assessing soft-tissue shrinkage estimates in museum specimens imaged with diffusible iodine-based contrast-enhanced computed tomography (diceCT)
Microscopy and Microanalysis, 24, 284–291 (2018)
Hedrick BP, Yohe L, Vander Linden A, Dávalos LM, Sears K, Sadier A, Rossiter SJ, Davies KTJ & Dumont E
Ageing-associated DNA methylation dynamics are a molecular readout of lifespan variation among mammalian species
Genome Biology, 19, 22 (2018)
Lowe R, Barton C, Jenkins CA, Ernst C, Forman O, Fernandez-Twinn DS, Bock C, Rossiter SJ, Faulkes CG, Ozanne SE, Walter L, Odom DT, Mellersh C & Rakyan VK
Molecular data support an early shift to an intermediate-light niche in the evolution of mammals
Molecular Biology and Evolution, 35, 1130–1134 (2018)
Liu Y, Chi H, Li L, Rossiter SJ & Zhang S
2017
Recent surveys of bats from the Andaman Islands, India: diversity, distribution, and echolocation characteristics
Acta Chiropterologica, 19, 419–437 (2017)
Srinivasulu C, Srinivasulu A, Srinivasulu B, Gopi A, Dar TH, Bates PJJ, Rossiter SJ & Jones G
An expanded mammal mitogenome dataset from Southeast Asia
GigaScience, 6, gix053 (2017)
Salleh FM, Ramos-Madrigal J, Peñaloza F, Liu S, Sinding MHS, Patel RP, Martins R, Lenz D, Fickel J, Roos C, Shamsir MS, Azman MS, Lim BK, Rossiter SJ, Wilting A & Gilbert MTP
A taxonomic revision of the Kerivoula hardwickii complex (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) with the description of a new species
Acta Chiropterologica, 19, 19–39 (2017)
Kuo HC, Soisook P, Ho YY, Csorba G, Wang CN & Rossiter SJ
Genomics of introgression in the Chinese horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus sinicus) revealed by transcriptome sequencing
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 121, 698–710 (2017)
Mao X, Tsagkogeorga G, Bailey SE & Rossiter SJ
Trpc2 pseudogenization dynamics in bats reveal ancestral vomeronasal signaling, then pervasive loss
Evolution, 71, 923–935 (2017)
Yohe LR, Abubakar R, Giordano C, Dumont E, Sears KE, Rossiter SJ & Dávalos LM
Comparative genomics reveals contraction in olfactory receptor genes in bats
Scientific Reports, 7, 259 (2017)
Tsagkogeorga G, Müller S, Dessimoz C & Rossiter SJ
The database of the Predicts (Projecting responses of ecological diversity in changing terrestrial systems) project
Ecology and Evolution, 7, 145–188 (2017)
Hudson LN et al.
2016
Phylogeny, genes, and hearing: implications for the evolution of echolocation in bats
Teeling EC, Jones G & Rossiter SJ
In: Bat Bioacoustics (eds. M Fenton, A Grinnell, A Popper & R Fay)
Springer Handbook of Auditory Research, vol 54. Springer, New York, NY (2016)
Differential introgression suggests candidate beneficial and barrier loci between two parapatric subspecies of Pearson′s horseshoe bat Rhinolophus pearsoni
Current Zoology, 62, 405-412 (2016)
Mao X, Zhang S & Rossiter SJ
The value of molecular vs. morphometric and acoustic information for species identification using sympatric molossid bats
PLoS ONE, 11, e0150780 (2016)
Gager Y, Tarland E, Lieckfeldt D, Ménage M, Botero-Castro F and Rossiter SJ, Kraus RH, Ludwig A & Dechmann DK
Female philopatry and limited male-biased dispersal in the Ussuri tube-nosed bat, Murina ussuriensis
Journal of Mammalogy, 29, 545-553 (2016)
Flanders J, Inoue-Murayama M, Rossiter SJ & Hill DA
2015
The use of museum samples for large‐scale sequence capture: a study of congeneric horseshoe bats (family Rhinolophidae)
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 117, 58–70 (2016)
Bailey SE, Mao X, Struebig M, Tsagkogeorga G, Csorba G, Heaney LR, Sedlock J, Stanley W, Rouillard JM & Rossiter SJ
Speciation processes in putative island endemic sister bat species: false impressions from mitochondrial DNA and microsatellite data
Molecular Ecology, 24, 5910–5926 (2015)
Kuo HC, Chen SF, Fang YP, Cotton JA, Parker JD, Csorba G, Lim BK, Eger JL, Chen CH, Chou CH & Rossiter SJ
A phylogenomic analysis of the role and timing of molecular adaptation in the aquatic transition of cetartiodactyl mammals.
Royal Society Open Science, 2, 150156 (2015)
Tsagkogeorga G, McGowen MR, Davies KTJ, Jarman S, Polanowski A, Bertelsen MF & Rossiter SJ
Family wide molecular adaptations to underground life in African mole-rats revealed by phylogenomic analysis
Molecular Biology and Evolution, 32, 3089–3107 (2015)
Davies KTJ, Bennett NC, Tsagkogeorga G, Rossiter SJ & Faulkes CG
Description of a new species of the Rhinolophus trifoliatus-group (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae) from Southeast Asia
Acta Chiropterologica, 17, 21–36 (2015)
Soisook P, Struebig MJ, Noerfahmy S, Bernard H, Maryanto I, Chen SF, Rossiter SJ, Kuo HC, Deshpande K, Bates PJJ, Sykes D & Portela Miguez R
Molecular evolution of the hyaluronan synthase 2 gene in mammals: implications for adaptations to the subterranean niche and cancer resistance
Biology Letters , 11, 20150185 (2015)
Faulkes CG, Davies KTJ, Rossiter SJ & Bennett NC
Increasing concern over trade in bat souvenirs from South-east Asia
Oryx 49, 204–204 (2015)
Lee BPYH, Struebig MJ, Rossiter SJ & Kingston T
2014
Divergent evolutionary rates in vertebrate and mammalian specific conserved non-coding elements (CNEs) in echolocating mammals.
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 14, 26
Davies KTJ, Tsagkogeorga G & Rossiter SJ (2014)
Adaptive functional diversification of lysozyme in insectivorous bats
Molecular Biology and Evolution, 31, 2829-2835 (2014)
Liu Y, He G, Xu H, Han X, Jones G, Rossiter SJ & Zhang S
Molecular evolution of growth hormone and insulin-like growth factor 1 receptors in long-lived, small-bodied mammals
Gene, 549, 228-236 (2014)
Davies KTJ, Tsagkogeorga G, Bennett NC, Dávalos LM, Faulkes CG & Rossiter SJ
The PREDICTS database: a global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts Ecology and Evolution, 4, 4701-4735 (2014)
Hudson et al.
Differential introgression among loci across a hybrid zone of the intermediate horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus affinis)
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 14, 154 (2014)
Mao X, Zhu G, Zhang L, Zhang S & Rossiter SJ
Comparative rangewide phylogeography of four endemic Taiwanese bat species
Molecular Ecology, 23, 3566-3586 (2014)
Kuo HC, Chen SF, Fang YP, Flanders J & Rossiter SJ
Massive losses of taste receptor genes in toothed and baleen whales
Genome Biology and Evolution, 6, 1254-1265 (2014)
Feng P, Zheng J, Rossiter SJ, Wang D & Zhao H
Heteroplasmy and ancient translocation of mitochondrial DNA to the nucleus in the Chinese horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus sinicus) complex
PLOS ONE, 9, e98035 (2014)
Mao X, Dong J, Hua P, He G, Zhang S & Rossiter SJ
2013
Diversity of Malaysian insectivorous bat assemblages revisited
Journal of Tropical Ecology, 30, 111-121 (2013)
Lim L-S, Mohd-Adnan A, Zubaid A, Struebig M & Rossiter SJ
Determinants and patterns of reproductive success in the greater horseshoe bat during a population recovery
PLoS ONE, 9, e87199 (2014)
Ward HL, Ransome, RD, Jones G & Rossiter SJ (2014)
Continent-wide panmixia of an African fruit bat facilitates transmission of potentially zoonotic viruses
Nature Communications, 2770 (2013)
Peel AJ, Sargan DR, Baker KS, Hayman DTS, Barr JA, Crameri G, Suu-Ire RD, Broder CC, Lembo T, Wang LF, Fooks AR, Rossiter SJ, Wood JLN & Cunningham AA
Phylogenomic analyses elucidate the evolutionary relationships of bats (Chiroptera)
Current Biology 23, 1-6
Tsagkogeorga G, Parker J, Stupka E, Cotton JA & Rossiter SJ (2013)
Genome-wide signatures of convergent evolution in echolocating mammals
Nature, 502, 228–231
Parker J, Tsagkogeorga G, Cotton JA, Liu Y, Provero P, Stupka E & Rossiter SJ (2013)
Development and characterisation of microsatellite loci for Murina gracilis (Vespertilionidae) and cross-species amplification in two other congeneric species
Conservation Genetic Resources, 5, 1117-1120 (2013)
Kuo H, Chen S & Rossiter SJ
Adaptive evolution of tight junction protein claudin-14 in echolocating whales
Gene, 530, 208-214 (2013)
Xu H, Liu Y, He G, Rossiter SJ & Zhang S
Multiple bursts of pancreatic ribonuclease gene duplication in insect-eating bats
Gene 526,112-117 (2013)
Xu H, Liu Y, Meng F, He B, Han N, Li G, Rossiter SJ & Zhang S
Multiple cases of asymmetric introgression among horseshoe bats detected by phylogenetic conflicts across loci
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 110, 346–361 (2013)
Mao X, Thong VD, Bates PJJ, Jones G, Zhang S & Rossiter SJ
Phylogeography and postglacial recolonization of Europe by Rhinolophus hipposideros: evidence from multiple genetic markers
Molecular Ecology, 22, 4055-4070 (2013)
Dool SE, Puechmaille SJ, Dietz C, Juste J, Ibanez C, Hulva P, Roue S, Petit EJ, Jones G, Russo D, Toffoli R, Viglino A, Martinoli A, Rossiter SJ & Teeling EM
Adaptive evolution of the Myo6 gene in Old World fruit bats (Family: Pteropodidae)
PLoS ONE, 8, e62307 (2013)
Shen B, Han X, Jones G, Rossiter SJ & Zhang S
The evolution of bat vestibular systems in the face of antagonistic selection pressures for flight and echolocation
PLoS ONE, 8, e61998 (2013)
Davies KTJ, Bates PJJ, Maryanto I, Cotton JA & Rossiter SJ.
Historical introgression and the persistence of ghost alleles in the intermediate horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus affinis)
Molecular Ecology, 22, 1035-1050 (2013)
Mao X, He G, Hua P, Jones G, Zhang S & Rossiter SJ
Evolutionary origins of ultrasonic hearing and laryngeal echolocation in bats inferred from morphological analyses of the inner ear
Frontiers in Zoology, 10, 2 (2013)
Davies KTJ, Maryanto I & Rossiter SJ
Ancient invasion of an extinct gammaretrovirus in cetaceans
Virology, 441, 66-69 (2013)
Wang L, Yin Q, He G, Rossiter SJ, Holmes EC & Cui J
From the ultrasonic to the infrared: molecular evolution and the sensory biology of bats
Frontiers in Physiology, 4, 116 (2013)
Jones G, Teeling EM & Rossiter SJ
A phylomedicine approach to understanding the evolution of auditory sensory perception and disease in mammals
Evolutionary Applications, 6, 412-422 (2013)
Kirwan JD, Bekaert M, Commins JM, Davies KTJ, Rossiter SJ & Teeling EC
Lineage divergence and historical gene flow in the Chinese horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus sinicus)
PLoS ONE 8, e56786 (2013)
Mao X, He G, Zhang J, Rossiter SJ & Zhang S
2012
Bat diversity in the Heart of Borneo
Biodiversity and Conservation, 21, 3711-3727 (2012)
Struebig MJ, Bozek M, Hildebrand J, Rossiter SJ & Lane DJW
Overcoming the issue of small sample sizes in fragmentation genetics
Molecular Ecology, 21, 2850-2851 (2012)
Struebig MJ, Le Comber SC & Rossiter SJ
What is comparable in comparative cognition?
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B, 367, 2677-2685 (2012)
Chittka L, Rossiter SJ, Skorupski P & Fernando C
Adaptive evolution in the Glucose Transporter 4 Gene Slc2a4 in Old World Fruit Bats (Family: Pteropodidae)
PLoS ONE, 7, e33197 (2012)
Shen B, Han X, Rossiter SJ & Zhang S
Multiple adaptive losses of alanine-glyoxylate aminotransferase mitochondrial targeting in fruit eating bats Molecular Biology & Evolution, 29, 1507-1511 (2012)
Liu Y, Xu H, Yuan X, Rossiter SJ & Zhang S
Parallel signatures of sequence evolution among hearing genes in echolocating mammals: an emerging model of genetic convergence
Heredity, 108, 480-489 (2012)
Davies KTJ, Cotton JA, Kirwan J, Teeling EC & Rossiter SJ
Social organisation and genetic structure: insights from co-distributed bat populations
Molecular Ecology, 21, 647-661 (2012)
Rossiter SJ, Zubaid A, Mohd-Adnan A, Struebig MJ, Kunz TH, Gopal S, Petit EJ & Kingston T
2011
Prestin shows divergent evolution between constant frequency echolocating bats
Journal of Molecular Evolution, 73, 109-115 (2011)
Shen B, Avila-Flores R, Liu Y, Rossiter SJ & Zhang S
Hierarchical polygyny in multiparous flat-headed bats
Molecular Ecology, 20, 3669-3680 (2011)
Hua P, Zhang L, Zhu G, Jones G, Zhang S & Rossiter SJ
Parallel declines in species and genetic diversity in tropical forest fragments
Ecology Letters, 14, 582-590 (2011)
Struebig MJ, Kingston T, Petit EJ, Le Comber SC, Zubaid A, Mohd-Adnan A & Rossiter SJ
Long-term dynamics of a well-characterised food web: four decades of acidification and recovery in the Broadstone Stream model system
Advances in Ecological Research, 44, 69-117 (2011)
Layer K, Hildrew AG, Jenkins GB, Riede J, Rossiter SJ, Townsend CR & Woodward G
Adaptive evolution of leptin in heterothermic bats
PLoS ONE 6, e27189 (2011)
Yuan L , Zhao X , Lin B , Rossiter SJ , He L , Zuo X, He G, Jones G, Geiser F & Zhang S
Prestin and high frequency hearing in mammals
Communicative and Integrative Biology, 4, 236-239 (2011)
Rossiter SJ, Zhang S & Liu Y
Identifying the effects of the Pleistocene on the greater horseshoe bat, Rhinolophus ferrumequinum, in East Asia using ecological niche modelling and phylogenetic analyses
Journal of Biogeography, 38, 439-452
Flanders J, Wei L, Rossiter SJ & Zhang S (2011)
Contrasting genetic structure in two co-distributed species of Old World fruit bat
PLoS ONE 5, e13903 (2010)
Chen J, Rossiter SJ, Flanders JR, Sun Y, Hua P, Miller-Butterworth C, Liu X, Rajan KE & Zhang S (2010)
Cetaceans on a molecular fast track to ultrasonic hearing
Current Biology, 20, 1834-1839 (2010)
Liu, Y, Rossiter SJ, Han X, Cotton JA & Zhang S
Pleistocene climatic cycling drives intra-specific diversification in the intermediate horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus affinis) in Southern China
Molecular Ecology, 19, 2754-2769 (2010)
Mao X, Zhu GJ, Zhang S & Rossiter SJ
Historical male-mediated introgression in horseshoe bats revealed by multi-locus DNA sequence data
Molecular Ecology, 19, 1352-1366 (2010)
Mao X, Zhang J, Zhang S & Rossiter SJ
Characterization of microsatellite loci in the straw-colored fruit bat, Eidolon helvum (Pteropodidae) Conservation Genetics Resources, 2, 279-282 (2010)
Peel AJ, Rossiter SJ, Wood JLN, Cunningham AA & Sargan DR
Phylogeography of the Japanese pipistrelle bat in China: the impact of ancient and recent events on population genetic structure
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 99, 582-594 (2010)
Wei L, Flanders JR, Rossiter SJ, Miller-Butterworth CM, Zhang LB & Zhang S
Convergent sequence evolution between echolocating bats and dolphins
Current Biology, 20, R53-54 (2010)
Liu Y, Cotton JA, Shen B, Han X, Rossiter SJ & Zhang S
2009
Rhodopsin molecular evolution in mammals inhabiting low light environments
PLoS ONE, 4, e8326 (2009)
Zhao H, Ru B, Teeling EC, Faulkes CG, Zhang S & Rossiter SJ
Determinants of echolocation call frequency variation in the Formosan lesser horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus monoceros)
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 276, 3901-3909 (2009)
Chen S, Jones G & Rossiter SJ
Conservation importance of limestone karst outcrops for Palaeotropical bats in a fragmented landscape Biological Conservation, 142, 2089–2096 (2009)
Struebig MJ, Kingston T, Zubaid A, Le Comber SC, Adnan AM, Turner A, Kelly J, Bozek M & Rossiter SJ
The evolution of color vision in nocturnal mammals
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106, 8980-8985 (2009).
Zhao H, Rossiter SJ, Teeling EM, Li C, Cotton JA & Zhang S
Recent surveys of bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from China I. Rhinolophidae and Hipposideridae
Acta Chiropterologica, 11, 71-88 (2009)
Zhang L, Jones G, Zhang J, Zhu G, Parsons S, Rossiter SJ & Zhang S
Parentage and kinship analysis
Rossiter SJ
In: Ecological and Behavioral Methods for the Study of Bats (eds TH Kunz & S Parsons)
John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore (2009).
Adaptive evolution of 5’HoxD genes in the origin and diversification of the cetacean flipper
Molecular Biology and Evolution, 26, 613-622 (2009)
Wang Z, Yuan L, Rossiter SJ, Zuo X, Ru B, Zhong H, Han N, Jones G, Jepson PD & Zhang S
Phylogeography of the greater horseshoe bat, Rhinolophus ferrumequinum: contrasting results from mitochondrial and microsatellite data
Molecular Ecology, 18, 306-318 (2009)
Flanders J, Jones G, Benda P, Dietz C, Zhang S, Li G, Sharifi M & Rossiter SJ
Development and characterisation of novel microsatellite markers from the Chinese rufous horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus sinicus) with cross-species amplification in closely related taxa
Molecular Ecology Resources, 9, 183-185 (2009)
Liu W, Zhang J, Hua P, Zhang S & Rossiter SJ
Isolation and characterization of thirteen microsatellite loci in Rhinolophus pusillus (least horseshoe bat) with cross-amplification in five related species
Conservation Genetics, 10, 597-600 (2009)
Hua P, Guo T, Liu W, Zhang S & Rossiter SJ
2008
The hearing gene Prestin reunites echolocating bats
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105, 13959-13964 (2008)
Li G, Wang J, Rossiter SJ, Jones G, Cotton JA & Zhang S
Isolation and characterization of microsatellite loci in Pratt’s Leaf-nosed Bat (Hipposideros pratti) and cross-species amplification in closely related taxa
Conservation Genetics, 9, 1341-1343 (2008)
Liu W, Hua P, Zhang J, Rossiter SJ & Zhang S
Conservation value of forest fragments to Palaeotropical bats
Biological Conservation, 141, 2112-2126 (2008)
Struebig MJ, Kingston T, Zubaid A, Adnan AM & Rossiter SJ
Sex-biased gene flow and colonisation in the Formosan lesser horseshoe bat: inference from nuclear and mitochondrial markers
Journal of Zoology, 274, 207-215 (2008)
Chen S, Jones G & Rossiter SJ
Isolation and characterisation of microsatellite loci in the papillose woolly bat, Kerivoula papillosa (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae)
Conservation Genetics, 9, 751-756 (2008)
Struebig MJ, Horsburgh GJ, Pandhal J, Triggs A, Zubaid A, Kingston T, Dawson DA & Rossiter SJ
2007
Rangewide phylogeography in the greater horseshoe bat inferred from microsatellite: implications for population history, taxonomy
Molecular Ecology, 16, 4699-4714 (2007)
Rossiter SJ, Benda P, Dietz C, Zhang S & Jones G
Accelerated FoxP2 evolution in echolocating bats
PLoS ONE, 2, e900 (2007)
Li G, Wang J, Rossiter SJ, Jones G & Zhang S
A new species of Hipposideros (Chiroptera: Hipposideridae) from Sulawesi
Acta Chiropterologica, 9, 13-26 (2007)
Bates PJ, Rossiter SJ, Suyanto A & Kingston T
Isolation and characterization of microsatellite loci in the flat-headed bat (Tylonycteris pachypus)
Molecular Ecology Notes, 7, 486-488 (2007)
Hua PY, Chen JP, Zhang LB, Liang B, Rossiter SJ & Zhang SY
2006
Long-term reproductive skew in male greater horseshoe bats
Molecular Ecology, 15, 3035-3043 (2006)
Rossiter SJ, Ransome RD, Faulkes CG, Dawson DA & Jones G
Causes and consequences of genetic structure in the greater horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum)
Rossiter SJ, Jones G, Ransome RD & Barratt EM.
In: Functional and Evolutionary Ecology of Bats, pp. 213-226 (2006)
Oxford University Press, New York
Phylogenetics of small horseshoe bats from Asia based on mitochondrial DNA sequence variation
Journal of Mammalogy, 87, 1234-1240 (2006)
Li G, Jones G, Rossiter SJ, Chen S, Parsons S & Zhang S
Population genetic structure and demographic history of the endemic Formosan lesser horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus monoceros)
Molecular Ecology, 15, 1643-1656 (2006)
Chen S, Rossiter SJ, Faulkes CG & Jones G
Genetic divergence and call frequency in cryptic species of Hipposideros larvatus (Chiroptera: Hipposideridae) from northeast India and comparisons with other Indo-Malayan populations
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 88, 119-130 (2006)
Thabah A, Rossiter SJ, Kingston T, Zhang S, Parsons S, Mya Mya K, Akbar Z, Jones G
2005
Mate-fidelity and intra-lineage polygyny in greater horseshoe bats
Nature, 437, 408-411 (2005)
Rossiter SJ, Ransome RD, Faulkes CG, Le Comber SL & Jones G
Results of a recent bat survey in Upper Myanmar including new records from the Kachin forests
Acta Chiropterologica, 7, 147-164 (2005)
Struebig MJ, Rossiter SJ, Bates JJ, Kingston T, Sein Sein LO, Nwe AA, Aung MM, Win SS & Mya KM
The diet of flat-headed bats, Tylonycteris pachypus and T. robustula in Guangxi, south China
Journal of Mammalogy, 86, 61–66 (2005)
Zhang L, Liren LU, Zhou S, Liang B, Jones G, Rossiter SJ & Zhang S
2004
A new species of Kerivoula (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from Myanmar (Burma)
Acta Chiropterologica, 6, 219-226 (2004)
Bates PJ, Struebig MJ, Rossiter SJ, Kingston T, Sein Sein Win & Khin Mya Mya
Harmonic-hopping in Wallacea’s bats
Nature, 429, 654-657 (2004)
Kingston T & Rossiter SJ
Microsatellite loci for the greater horseshoe bat, Rhinolophus ferrumequinum (Rhinolophidae, Chiroptera) and their cross-utility in 17 other bat species
Molecular Ecology Notes, 4, 96-100 (2004)
Dawson DA, Rossiter SJ, Jones G & Faukes CG
2002
Relatedness, kin-biased foraging in the greater horseshoe bat Rhinolophus ferrumequinum
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 51, 510-518 (2002)
Rossiter SJ, Jones G, Ransome RD & Barratt EM
2001
Outbreeding increases offspring survival in wild greater horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum) Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 268, 1055-1061 (2001)
Rossiter SJ, Jones G, Ransome RD & Barratt EM
2000
Genetic variation and population structure in the endangered greater horseshoe bat Rhinolophus ferrumequinum
Molecular Ecology, 9, 1131-1135 (2000)
Rossiter SJ, Jones G, Ransome RD & Barratt EM
Parentage, reproductive success and breeding behaviour in the greater horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum)
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B 267, 545-551 (2000)
Rossiter SJ, Jones G, Ransome RD & Barratt EM
1999
Characterization of microsatellite loci in the greater horseshoe bat Rhinolophus ferrumequinum
Molecular Ecology, 8, 1959-1961 (1999)
Rossiter SJ, Burland TM, Jones G & Barratt EM
1997
The utilisation of natural plant products in the livelihood of rural villagers: case study of the Tswapong Hills, Botswana
Botswana Notes and Records, 5, 22-29 (1997)
Rossiter SJ, Robinson SJ, Bunting A, Mason TM, Pellegrin S & Hill KE