The evolution of flight and echolocation in bats: another leap in the dark

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RELAX: detecting relaxed selection in a phylogenetic framework. (2014, background): “In HDC echolocating bats, the loss of SWS1 may be a result of a trade-off between vision and hearing (Speakman 2001), whereas in cave-roosting fruit bats it may simply reflect the poor light conditions in caves which make color hues more difficult to discern.”
Emergence time in forest bats: the influence of canopy closure (2007, background): “Although the debate is still open (Speakman et al., 2000), predation by birds relying on vision for hunting appears the most probable selective force for the evolution of nocturnality in bats (Fenton et al., 1994; Rydell and Speakman, 1995; Speakman, 2001).”