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Dermoptera

NOUN
  1. flying lemurs

How To Use Dermoptera In A Sentence

  • Notable among these are primates, tree shrews, dermopterans, and bats.
  • Dimeric and trimeric tRNA-SINEs with identical subunits could be characterized in dermopterans (CYN-II, CYN-III, or t-SINE ).
  • The relationships of picrodontids were long a matter of uncertainty, with early workers allying these peculiar mammals with marsupials, bats, insectivorans, or dermopterans.
  • Thus, from an ad hoc analysis of the mtDNA of mammalian representatives, we cannot gain conclusive evidence for a sister group relationship of dermopterans and primates.
  • Here, we describe the isolation and characterization of a unique tRNA-derived SINE family in dermopterans (flying lemurs or colugos).
  • Pettigrew et al. (1989) further argued that colugos (aka flying lemurs, or dermopterans) were also part of the megabat-primate clade, and essentially late-surviving relics which resembled the common ancestor of the megabat-primate clade. Archive 2006-08-01
  • Bats are thought to be related most closely to the Dermoptera, a small order of mammals (two species) which includes the colugos or ‘flying lemurs’ of the Phillippines.
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