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Language is characterized by a number of biological traits, many of which are unique to humans, however some are shared with a handful of other species. These shared traits present an opportunity for language researchers to use cutting-edge methods on relevant model species to study the biological underpinnings of language and its evolution. One such shared, language-relevant trait is vocal learning; the ability to change or create completely new sounds based on auditory feedback (Janik & Slater, 2000; Petkov & Jarvis, 2012). Vocal learning birds are the most well studied species, and recent efforts to perform large scale sequencing of bird genomes has led to advances in our understanding of how this trait is encoded in a genome (Pfenning et al., 2014). Similarly it has opened the door to molecular and neurogenetic interrogations in both learning and non-vocal learning species (Haesler et al., 2007; Whitney et al, 2014) that will help demonstrate what is necessary and/or sufficient for the evolution of a vocal learning brain/animal. To gain a broader view of how genomes evolved to facilitate vocal learning, it would be of great value to address such questions in other, more distantly related vocal learning species. Bats have recently caught the attention of the field due to their potential for vocal learning, sophisticated social structure and diversity (Knörnschild, 2014). Two species in particular have recently shown promise for vocal learning; Phyllostomus discolor (Esser, 1994) and Rousettus 238

Sequencing bat genomes to shed light on language evolution