Profile: Nancy Simmons
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Channel: American Museum of Natural History · 2012 · Science & Technology
Dr. Nancy Simmons specializes in the morphology and evolutionary biology of bats (Chiroptera). Together with several collaborators, she is developing a data set of morphological characters scored in species representing all major clades of bats. These data include new information gained from high-resolution CT scans of rare bats and are being combined with DNA sequence data to develop a robust higher-level phylogeny for Chiroptera. With collaborators, she is doing an in-depth study of the evolution of megabats -- flying foxes and their relatives -- using both molecular and morphological data. Dr. Simmons is also working with an expert on echolocation behavior to develop a method for coding features of echolocation calls for phylogenetic analysis. For more interviews, visit our "Meet the Scientists" channel: http://www.amnh.org/explore/amnh-tv/(category)/1325
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