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We investigate possible environmental and morphological trends in the $zsim0$ bar fraction using two carefully selected samples representative of a low-density environment (the isolated galaxies from the AMIGA sample) and of a dense environment (galaxies in the Virgo cluster). Galaxies span a stellar mass range from $10^8$ to $10^{12}$M$_{odot}$ and are visually classified using both high-resolution NIR (H-band) imaging and optical texttt{rgb} images. We find that the bar fraction in disk galaxies is independent of environment suggesting that bar formation may occur prior to the formation of galaxy clusters. The bar fraction in early type spirals ($Sa-Sb$) is $sim$50%, which is twice as high as the late type spirals ($Sbc-Sm$). The higher bar fraction in early type spirals may be due to the fact that a significant fraction of their bulges are pseudo-bulges which form via the buckling instability of a bar. i.e. a large part of the Hubble sequence is due to secular processes which move disc galaxies from late to early types. There is a hint of a higher bar fraction with higher stellar masses which may be due to the susceptibility to bar instabilities as the baryon fractions increase in halos of larger masses. Overall, the $S0$ population has a lower bar fraction than the $Sa-Sb$ galaxies and their barred fraction drops significantly with decreasing stellar mass. This supports the notion that $S0s$ form via the transformation of disk galaxies that enter the cluster environment. The gravitational harassment thickens the stellar disks, wiping out spiral patterns and eventually erasing the bar - a process that is more effective at lower galaxy masses.
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