Nancy Simmons

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Nancy Simmons is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Berkeley, National University of Tucumán, Pomona College

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According to Wikipedia, Nancy B. Simmons is an American zoologist, mammalogist, professor, and author. Specializing in bats, Simmons has conducted extensive research on the morphology and evolutionary history of numerous bat species. She is also the curator-in-charge of the Department of Mammalogy at the American Museum of Natural History and a professor at the Richard Gilder Graduate School.

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The Placental Mammal Ancestor and the Post–K-Pg Radiation of Placentals (2013) (973)
THE MAMMALS OF PARACOU, FRENCH GUIANA: A NEOTROPICAL LOWLAND RAINFOREST FAUNA PART 2. NONVOLANT SPECIES (2001) (716)
A phylogenetic supertree of the bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) (2002) (353)
Primitive Early Eocene bat from Wyoming and the evolution of flight and echolocation (2008) (351)
The mammals of Paracou, French Guiana, a Neotropical lowland rainforest fauna. Part 1, Bats. Bulletin of the AMNH ; no. 237 (1998) (299)
PHYLOGENY OF PHYLLOSTOMID BATS (MAMMALIA: CHIROPTERA): DATA FROM DIVERSE MORPHOLOGICAL SYSTEMS, SEX CHROMOSOMES, AND RESTRICTION SITES (2000) (286)
Phylogenetic relationships of Icaronycteris, Archaeonycteris, Hassianycteris, and Palaeochiropteryx to extant bat lineages, with comments on the evolution of echolocation and foraging strategies in Microchiroptera. Bulletin of the AMNH ; no. 235 (1998) (277)
Comparing Microbiome Sampling Methods in a Wild Mammal: Fecal and Intestinal Samples Record Different Signals of Host Ecology, Evolution (2018) (236)
Bats: A World of Science and Mystery (2015) (163)
Fossil Evidence and the Origin of Bats (2005) (151)
An Eocene Big Bang for Bats (2005) (106)
On the Cranial Osteology of Chiroptera. I. Pteropus (Megachiroptera: Pteropodidae) (2006) (93)
Evolutionary History of Bats: Fossils, Molecules and Morphology (2012) (91)
Fossil lemurs from Egypt and Kenya suggest an African origin for Madagascar’s aye-aye (2018) (87)
Understanding phylogenetic incongruence: lessons from phyllostomid bats (2012) (87)
A phylogeny of megachiropteran bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) based on direct optimization analysis of one nuclear and four mitochondrial genes (2003) (75)
A new species of Micronycteris (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) from northeastern Brazil : with comments on phylogenetic relationships. American Museum novitates ; no. 3158 (1996) (74)
Integrating incomplete fossils by isolating conflicting signal in saturated and non-independent morphological characters. (2014) (73)
On the Monophyly of Bats (1991) (72)
PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS OF MORMOOPID BATS (CHIROPTERA: MORMOOPIDAE) BASED ON MORPHOLOGICAL DATA (2001) (67)
Each flying fox on its own branch: a phylogenetic tree for Pteropus and related genera (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae). (2014) (65)
Livestock abundance predicts vampire bat demography, immune profiles and bacterial infection risk (2018) (62)
Conflict and congruence in a combined DNA–morphology analysis of megachiropteran bat relationships (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) (2005) (62)
The Case for Chiropteran Monophyly (61)
Evolutionary relationships of the old world fruit bats (Chiroptera, Pteropodidae): Another star phylogeny? (2011) (56)
Higher Level Classification of Phyllostomid Bats with a Summary of DNA Synapomorphies (2016) (56)
Testing the sensory trade-off hypothesis in New World bats (2018) (53)
The Roles of Taxonomy and Systematics in Bat Conservation (2016) (53)
The Importance of Methods: Archontan Phylogeny and Cladistic Analysis of Morphological Data (1993) (53)
Habitat fragmentation is associated with dietary shifts and microbiota variability in common vampire bats (2019) (50)
Roosting Ecology of Amazonian Bats: Evidence for Guild Structure in Hyperdiverse Mammalian Communities (2016) (50)
Phylogeny of Multituberculata (1993) (49)
Preserve a Voucher Specimen! The Critical Need for Integrating Natural History Collections in Infectious Disease Studies (2021) (46)
Morphological Diagnoses of Higher-Level Phyllostomid Taxa (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) (2016) (46)
Integrating Biodiversity Infrastructure into Pathogen Discovery and Mitigation of Emerging Infectious Diseases (2020) (43)
Next-generation phenomics for the Tree of Life (2013) (43)
Mercury bioaccumulation in bats reflects dietary connectivity to aquatic food webs. (2018) (42)
A New Amazonian Species of Micronycteris (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) with Notes on the Roosting Behavior of Sympatric Congeners (2002) (41)
A New Species of Peropteryx (Chiroptera: Emballonuridae) from Western Amazonia with Comments on Phylogenetic Relationships within the Genus (2010) (41)
Lack of population genetic structure and host specificity in the bat fly, Cyclopodia horsfieldi, across species of Pteropus bats in Southeast Asia (2013) (39)
Extraordinary Local Diversity of Disk-Winged Bats (Thyropteridae: Thyroptera) in Northeastern Peru, with the Description of a New Species and Comments on Roosting Behavior (2014) (38)
Evolutionary History of Bats: Systematics and paleobiogeography of early bats (2012) (37)
New Genus and Species of Nectar-Feeding Bat from the Atlantic Forest of Southeastern Brazil (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae: Glossophaginae) (2012) (36)
The case for chiropteran monophyly. American Museum novitates ; no. 3103 (1994) (35)
Systematics and Taxonomy of Great Striped-Faced Bats of the Genus Vampyrodes Thomas, 1900 (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) (2011) (34)
Inferring echolocation in ancient bats (2010) (34)
Approaches, Methods, and the Future of the Chiropteran Monophyly Controversy: A Reply to J. D. Pettigrew (1991) (31)
Viral Diversity, Prey Preference, and Bartonella Prevalence in Desmodus rotundus in Guatemala (2016) (29)
Morphology and Homology of the Chiropteran Calcar, with Comments on the Phylogenetic Relationships of Archaeopteropus (1998) (27)
Optimising predictive models to prioritise viral discovery in zoonotic reservoirs (2020) (27)
Evolution of the digital tendon locking mechanism in bats and dermopterans: A phylogenetic perspective (1994) (27)
New Myzopodidae (Chiroptera) from the Late Paleogene of Egypt: Emended Family Diagnosis and Biogeographic Origins of Noctilionoidea (2014) (27)
Quantifying the completeness of the bat fossil record (2019) (26)
PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS OF MORMOOPID BATS USING MITOCHONDRIAL GENE SEQUENCES AND MORPHOLOGY (2002) (26)
Ontogeny, functional ecology, and evolution of bats: Bat phylogeny: an evolutionary context for comparative studies (2000) (25)
A revision of Centronycteris Gray (Chiroptera, Emballonuridae) with notes on natural history. American Museum novitates ; no. 3239 (1998) (25)
A revision of Taeniolabis (Mammalia: Multituberculata), with a new species from the Puercan of eastern Montana (1987) (25)
A Second Endemic Land Mammal for the Hawaiian Islands: A New Genus and Species of Fossil Bat (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) (2016) (25)
Response to Comment on “The Placental Mammal Ancestor and the Post–K-Pg Radiation of Placentals” (2013) (25)
The Evolutionary History of the African Fruit Bats (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) (2016) (24)
Evolutionary History of Bats: Early evolution of body size in bats (2012) (23)
Element Homology and the Evolution of Dental Formulae in Megachiropteran Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) (2007) (23)
Peramorphosis, an evolutionary developmental mechanism in neotropical bat skull diversity (2019) (23)
Population structure of a widespread bat (Tadarida brasiliensis) in an island system (2017) (22)
Molecular diet analysis of neotropical bats based on fecal DNA metabarcoding (2021) (22)
The systematic position of Pteropus leucopterus and its bearing on the monophyly and relationships of Pteropus (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) (2008) (22)
The Chiropteran Premaxilla: A Reanalysis of Morphological Variation and Its Phylogenetic Interpretation (2007) (22)
A new, large-bodied omnivorous bat (Noctilionoidea: Mystacinidae) reveals lost morphological and ecological diversity since the Miocene in New Zealand (2018) (21)
Bats Are an Untapped System for Understanding Microbiome Evolution in Mammals (2018) (20)
Disassembly of Fragmented Bat Communities in Orange Walk District, Belize (2018) (20)
Predicting wildlife hosts of betacoronaviruses for SARS-CoV-2 sampling prioritization (2020) (20)
Trehalase Gene as a Molecular Signature of Dietary Diversification in Mammals (2019) (19)
Dispersal out of Wallacea spurs diversification of Pteropus flying foxes, the world’s largest bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) (2019) (19)
Aerodynamic reconstruction of the primitive fossil bat Onychonycteris finneyi (Mammalia: Chiroptera) (2019) (19)
Sensitivity analysis of different methods of coding taxonomic polymorphism: an example from higher‐level bat phylogeny (2002) (18)
Environmental niche drives genetic and morphometric structure in a widespread bat (2016) (17)
Quaternary Bat Diversity in the Dominican Republic (2013) (17)
COVID-19 and threats to bats (2020) (16)
Morphology and Evolution of Sesamoid Elements in Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) (2018) (16)
Quaternary Bats from the Impossível-Ioiô Cave System (Chapada Diamantina, Brazil): Humeral Remains and the First Fossil Record of Noctilio leporinus (Chiroptera, Noctilionidae) from South America (2014) (15)
A New Species of Nectar-Feeding Bat of the Genus Hsunycteris (Phyllostomidae: Lonchophyllinae) from Northeastern Peru (2017) (15)
A New Early Eocene (Ypresian) Bat from Pourcy, Paris Basin, France, with Comments on Patterns of Diversity in the Earliest Chiropterans (2015) (15)
The bat fauna of the Saul region, French Guiana (2000) (15)
Unique Turbinal Morphology in Horseshoe Bats (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae) (2017) (15)
A Species-Level Phylogeny of Old World Fruit Bats with a New Higher-Level Classification of the Family Pteropodidae (2020) (15)
Misleading results from the use of ambiguity coding to score polymorphisms in higher-level taxa. (2001) (15)
A New Family of Large Omnivorous Bats (Mammalia, Chiroptera) from the Late Eocene of the Fayum Depression, Egypt, with Comments on Use of the Name “Eochiroptera” (2016) (14)
Ecological and evolutionary drivers of haemoplasma infection and bacterial genotype sharing in a Neotropical bat community (2020) (14)
Phylogenetic Relationships of the Enigmatic Harpy Fruit Bat, Harpyionycteris (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) (2006) (14)
Paraphyly in Catopsalis (Mammalia: Multituberculata) and its biogeographic implications (1986) (14)
The Importance of Late Quaternary Climate Change and Karst on Distributions of Caribbean Mormoopid Bats (2015) (13)
The phylogenetic relationships of cynopterine fruit bats (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae: Cynopterinae). (2009) (13)
Morphological specializations of Cheiromeles (naked bulldog bats; Molossidae) and their possible role in quadrupedal locomotion (2001) (13)
On the cranial osteology of Chiroptera. 1, Pteropus (Megachiroptera, Pteropodidae). Bulletin of the AMNH ; no. 295 (2006) (13)
Bayesian hierarchical models suggest oldest known plant-visiting bat was omnivorous (2015) (12)
The Internal Nasal Skeleton of the Bat Pteropus lylei K. Andersen, 1908 (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) (2012) (11)
Taking wing. (2008) (11)
Evaluating the performance of targeted sequence capture, RNA‐Seq, and degenerate‐primer PCR cloning for sequencing the largest mammalian multigene family (2020) (11)
A fecal sequel: Testing the limits of a genetic assay for bat species identification (2019) (11)
Community structure of a Neotropical bat fauna as revealed by stable isotope analysis: Not all species fit neatly into predicted guilds (2019) (11)
Brazilian cave heritage under siege. (2022) (10)
The bat community of Haiti and evidence for its long-term persistence at high elevations (2017) (9)
Phylogenetics and biogeography of least sac-winged bats (Balantiopteryx) based on morphological and molecular data (2004) (8)
Hibernation in bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) did not evolve through positive selection of leptin (2018) (8)
Maxilloturbinal Aids in Nasophonation in Horseshoe Bats (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae) (2018) (8)
Temporal patterns of vampire bat rabies and host connectivity in Belize (2020) (7)
Surveying the vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) serum proteome: a resource for identifying immunological proteins and detecting pathogens (2020) (7)
Chemical characterisation of potential pheromones from the shoulder gland of the Northern yellow-shouldered-bat, Sturnira parvidens (Phyllostomidae: Stenodermatinae) (2019) (6)
Attenuated evolution of mammals through the Cenozoic (2022) (6)
Bats (Chiroptera) from Olduvai Gorge, Early Pleistocene, Bed I (Tanzania) (2015) (6)
Surveying the Vampire Bat (Desmodus rotundus) Serum Proteome: A Resource for Identifying Immunological Proteins and Detecting Pathogens. (2021) (6)
Disentangling interactions among mercury, immunity and infection in a Neotropical bat community. (2020) (6)
Crowds Replicate Performance of Scientific Experts Scoring Phylogenetic Matrices of Phenotypes (2018) (6)
Chapter 6. Phylogenetic Relationships of Harpyionycterine Megabats (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) (2009) (6)
Morphology, function, and phylogenetic significance of pubic nipples in bats (Mammalia, Chiroptera). American Museum novitates ; no. 3077 (1993) (5)
Liberating host–virus knowledge from biological dark data (2021) (5)
Conjoined Twins in a Wild Bat: A Case Report (2015) (5)
Ecological constraints on highly evolvable olfactory receptor genes and morphology in neotropical bats (2021) (4)
Holistic understanding of contemporary ecosystems requires integration of data on domesticated, captive and cultivated organisms (2021) (4)
Body size affects immune cell proportions in birds and non-volant mammals, but not bats. (2021) (4)
50 Years of Bat Research: Foundations and New Frontiers (2022) (4)
Rapid Creation of a Data Product for the World's Specimens of Horseshoe Bats and Relatives, a Known Reservoir for Coronaviruses (2020) (4)
New genus and species of nectar-feeding bat from the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae, Glossophaginae). (American Museum novitates, no. 3747) (2012) (4)
Phylogeny and Convergence in Cactophilic Bats (2021) (4)
Phylogenetic Relationships of Harpyionycterine Megabats ( Chiroptera : Pteropodidae ) (2009) (4)
Low Levels of Population Structure among Geographically Distant Populations of Pteropus vampyrus (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) (2018) (4)
Untangling the ecological signal in the dental morphology in the bat superfamily Noctilionoidea (2021) (4)
Interrogating Phylogenetic Discordance Resolves Deep Splits in the Rapid Radiation of Old World Fruit Bats (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) (2021) (4)
Unraveling molecular mechanisms of immunity and cancer-resistance using the genomes of the Neotropical bats Artibeus jamaicensis and Pteronotus mesoamericanus (2020) (3)
You Are More Than What You Eat: Differential Enrichment of Microbiome Functions Across Bat Dietary Guilds (2021) (3)
Comment on “Population genetics reveal Myotis keenii (Keen’s myotis) and Myotis evotis (long-eared myotis) to be a single species” (2021) (3)
Using iNaturalist to monitor adherence to best practices in bat handling (2021) (3)
CETAF-DiSSCo/COVID19-TAF biodiversity-related knowledge hub working group: indexed biotic interactions and review summary (2020) (3)
Airborne eDNA documents a diverse and ecologically complex tropical bat and other mammal community (2023) (3)
Lack of population genetic structure and host specificity in the bat fly, Cyclopodia horsfieldi, across species of Pteropus bats in Southeast Asia (2013) (3)
Parasite species identity and local community diversity mediate effects of habitat fragmentation on bacterial microbiomes. (2020) (3)
Don’t misrepresent link between bats and SARS (2018) (3)
New Records of Flying Foxes (Chiroptera: Pteropus sp.) from Seram, Indonesia, with Notes on Ecology and Conservation Status (2015) (2)
You are more than what you eat: potentially adaptive enrichment of microbiome functions across bat dietary niches (2021) (2)
Body size affects immune cell proportions in birds and non-volant mammals, but not bats (2020) (2)
Monographs as a nexus for building extended specimen networks using persistent identifiers (2022) (2)
Handbook for Planning an Effective Writing Program Kindergarten through Grade Twelve (1987) (2)
Don't misrepresent link between bats and SARS. (2018) (2)
Phylogenetic and Ecological Trends in Specialization: Disentangling the Drivers of Ectoparasite Host Specificity (2022) (2)
Disentangling interactions between mercury, immunity, and infection in a Neotropical bat community (2020) (2)
Quaternary bats from the Impossível-Ioiô cave cystem (Chapada Diamantina, Brazil) : humeral remains and the first fossil record of Noctilio leporinus (Chiroptera, Noctilionidae) from South America. (American Museum novitates, no. 3798) (2014) (2)
Long-read sequencing reveals rapid evolution of immunity- and cancer-related genes in bats (2020) (2)
Ecological and evolutionary drivers of hemoplasma infection and bacterial genotype sharing in a Neotropical bat community (2019) (2)
A New Mormoopid Bat from the Oligocene (Whitneyan and Early Arikareean) of Florida, and Phylogenetic Relationships of the Major Clades of Mormoopidae (Mammalia: Chiroptera) (2019) (2)
Cascading effects of habitat loss on ectoparasite-associated bacterial microbiomes (2022) (2)
Liberating Biodiversity Data From COVID-19 Lockdown: Toward a knowledge hub for mammal host-virus information (2020) (2)
Mammalian Diversity and Matses Ethnomammalogy in Amazonian Peru Part 4: Bats (2021) (1)
You are more than what you eat: potentially adaptive enrichment of microbiome functions across bat dietary niches (2021) (1)
Fossil lemurs from Egypt and Kenya suggest an African origin for Madagascar’s aye-aye (2018) (1)
Systematic mammalogy : contributions in honor of Guy G. Musser. (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 331) (2009) (1)
Reconstructing the Genomic Diversity of a Widespread Sub-Saharan Bat (Pteropodidae: Eidolon helvum) Using Archival Museum Collections (2020) (1)
A Faithful Gut: Core Features of Gastrointestinal Microbiota of Long-Distance Migratory Bats Remain Stable despite Dietary Shifts Driving Differences in Specific Bacterial Taxa (2021) (1)
Serum proteomics identifies immune pathways and candidate biomarkers of coronavirus infection in wild vampire bats (2022) (1)
Out of thin air: surveying tropical bat roosts through air sampling of eDNA (2022) (1)
Inter- and intra-specific variation in hair cortisol concentrations of Neotropical bats (2021) (1)
Exploring the World of Mammals (2008) (1)
Supplemental Material for 'A species-level phylogeny of Old World fruit bats with a new higher-level classification of the Family Pteropodidae. (American Museum novitates, no. 3950)' (2020) (1)
Prevalence of mineralized elements in the rostra of bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) (2018) (1)
Evolutionary History of Bats: Index (2012) (1)
Detection of Tioman Virus in Pteropus vampyrus Near Flores, Indonesia (2021) (1)
Taeniolabis Cope 1882 Mammalia Multituberculata Proposed Designation Of Polymastodon taoensis Cope 1882 As Type Speciesp Zpnpsp-2529 (1986) (1)
Feeling for food: Can rostro‐mental hair arrays sense hydrodynamic cues for foraging North Atlantic right whales? (2022) (1)
Quaternary bat diversity in the Dominican Republic. (American Museum novitates, no. 3779) (2013) (1)
A New Dichromatic Species of Myotis (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from the Nimba Mountains, Guinea (2021) (1)
Enhanced monography in a collaboratively evolved hub for systematic biology (2022) (1)
Insights into the formation and diversification of a novel chiropteran wing membrane from embryonic development (2023) (0)
The genome sequence of Molossus nigricans (Chiroptera, Molossidae; Miller, 1902) (2023) (0)
Co-circulation of alpha- and beta- coronaviruses in Pteropus vampyrus flying foxes from Indonesia. (2022) (0)
Issue Information (2020) (0)
Morphology and evolution of sesamoid elements in bats (Mammalia, Chiroptera). (American Museum novitates, no. 3905) (2018) (0)
Zero-Shot Learning and Detection of Teeth in Images of Bat Skulls (2013) (0)
Variation Now and Then. (2008) (0)
DNA Metabarcoding Reveals Dietary Network Structure in a Neotropical Bat Community (2020) (0)
A new, large-bodied omnivorous bat (Noctilionoidea: Mystacinidae) reveals lost morphological and ecological diversity since the Miocene in New Zealand (2018) (0)
A New Early Eocene (Ypresian) Bat from Pourcy, Paris Basin, France, with Comments on Patterns of Diversity in the Earliest Chiropterans (2015) (0)
Supplemental Information 2: Representative examples of gas chromatograms of SPME extracts from an adult male, juvenile male and an adult female Sturnira parvidens. (2019) (0)
Data from: Population structure of a widespread bat (Tadarida brasiliensis) in an island system (2017) (0)
Environmentally driven phenotypic convergence and niche conservatism accompany speciation in hoary bats (2022) (0)
The oldest known bat skeletons and their implications for Eocene chiropteran diversification (2023) (0)
New Publications for Teachers: Resources for Writing Centers (1985) (0)
Targeted sequence capture outperforms RNA-Seq and degenerate-primer PCR cloning for sequencing the largest mammalian multi-gene family (2019) (0)
Evolutionary History of Bats: Preface (2012) (0)
Using iNaturalist to monitor adherence to best practises in bat handling (2021) (0)
The Importance of Collecting and Archiving Data on Domestic and Cultivated Organisms (2022) (0)
The chiropteran premaxilla (2007) (0)
Figure 1 from: Van der Jeucht L, Groom Q, Agosti D, Phelps K, Reeder DM, Simmons NB (2021) Using iNaturalist to monitor adherence to best practices in bat handling. Biodiversity Data Journal 9: e68052. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e68052 (2021) (0)
Integrative single-cell characterization of frugivory adaptations in the bat kidney and pancreas (2023) (0)
9 A bird ? A plane ? (0)
Figure 2 from: Van der Jeucht L, Groom Q, Agosti D, Phelps K, Reeder DM, Simmons NB (2021) Using iNaturalist to monitor adherence to best practices in bat handling. Biodiversity Data Journal 9: e68052. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e68052 (2021) (0)
Evolutionary History of Bats: Plate section (2012) (0)
How to be a Copyright Officer: Practical Tips and Reflections from Canada's Oldest Living Copyright Officer (2017) (0)
Figure 3 from: Van der Jeucht L, Groom Q, Agosti D, Phelps K, Reeder DM, Simmons NB (2021) Using iNaturalist to monitor adherence to best practices in bat handling. Biodiversity Data Journal 9: e68052. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e68052 (2021) (0)

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