Suchergebnisse - "Reptiles/classification"

Interrogating Genomic-Scale Data for Squamata (Lizards, Snakes, and Amphisbaenians) Shows no Support for Key Traditional Morphological Relationships von Burbrink, Frank T, Grazziotin, Felipe G, Pyron, R Alexander, Cundall, David, Donnellan, Steve, Irish, Frances, Keogh, J Scott, Kraus, Fred, Murphy, Robert W, Noonan, Brice, Raxworthy, Christopher J, Ruane, Sara, Lemmon, Alan R, Lemmon, Emily Moriarty, Zaher, Hussam

“… Genomics is narrowing uncertainty in the phylogenetic structure for many amniote groups. For one of the most diverse and species-rich groups, the squamate …”
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What's in an Outgroup? The Impact of Outgroup Choice on the Phylogenetic Position of Thalattosuchia (Crocodylomorpha) and the Origin of Crocodyliformes von Wilberg, Eric W

“… Outgroup sampling is a central issue in phylogenetic analysis. However, good justification is rarely given for outgroup selection in published analyses. Recent …”
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Clustered versus catastrophic global vertebrate declines von Leung, Brian, Hargreaves, Anna L., Greenberg, Dan A., McGill, Brian, Dornelas, Maria, Freeman, Robin

“… Recent analyses have reported catastrophic global declines in vertebrate populations 1 , 2 . However, the distillation of many trends into a global mean index …”
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Exceptional continental record of biotic recovery after the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction von Lyson, T R, Miller, I M, Bercovici, A D, Weissenburger, K, Fuentes, A J, Clyde, W C, Hagadorn, J W, Butrim, M J, Johnson, K R, Fleming, R F, Barclay, R S, Maccracken, S A, Lloyd, B, Wilson, G P, Krause, D W, Chester, S G B

“… We report a time-calibrated stratigraphic section in Colorado that contains unusually complete fossils of mammals, reptiles, and plants and elucidates the …”
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Global priorities for conservation of reptilian phylogenetic diversity in the face of human impacts von Gumbs, Rikki, Gray, Claudia L., Böhm, Monika, Hoffmann, Michael, Grenyer, Richard, Jetz, Walter, Meiri, Shai, Roll, Uri, Owen, Nisha R., Rosindell, James

“… Phylogenetic diversity measures are increasingly used in conservation planning to represent aspects of biodiversity beyond that captured by species richness …”
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Early giant reveals faster evolution of large body size in ichthyosaurs than in cetaceans von Sander, P Martin, Griebeler, Eva Maria, Klein, Nicole, Juarbe, Jorge Velez, Wintrich, Tanja, Revell, Liam J, Schmitz, Lars

“… Body sizes of marine amniotes span six orders of magnitude, yet the factors that governed the evolution of this diversity are largely unknown. High primary …”
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The rise of the ruling reptiles and ecosystem recovery from the Permo-Triassic mass extinction von Ezcurra, Martín D, Butler, Richard J

“… One of the key faunal transitions in Earth history occurred after the Permo-Triassic mass extinction ( 252.2 Ma), when the previously obscure archosauromorphs …”
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New reptile shows dinosaurs and pterosaurs evolved among diverse precursors von Müller, Rodrigo T., Ezcurra, Martín D., Garcia, Mauricio S., Agnolín, Federico L., Stocker, Michelle R., Novas, Fernando E., Soares, Marina B., Kellner, Alexander W. A., Nesbitt, Sterling J.

“… Dinosaurs and pterosaurs have remarkable diversity and disparity through most of the Mesozoic Era 1 – 3 . Soon after their origins, these reptiles diversified …”
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Novel Approaches for Phylogenetic Inference from Morphological Data and Total-Evidence Dating in Squamate Reptiles (Lizards, Snakes, and Amphisbaenians) von Pyron, R Alexander

“… Here, I combine previously underutilized models and priors to perform more biologically realistic phylogenetic inference from morphological data, with an …”
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Three crocodilian genomes reveal ancestral patterns of evolution among archosaurs von Green, Richard E, Braun, Edward L, Armstrong, Joel, Earl, Dent, Nguyen, Ngan, Hickey, Glenn, Vandewege, Michael W, St John, John A, Capella-Gutiérrez, Salvador, Castoe, Todd A, Kern, Colin, Fujita, Matthew K, Opazo, Juan C, Jurka, Jerzy, Kojima, Kenji K, Caballero, Juan, Hubley, Robert M, Smit, Arian F, Platt, Roy N, Lavoie, Christine A, Ramakodi, Meganathan P, Finger, Jr, John W, Suh, Alexander, Isberg, Sally R, Miles, Lee, Chong, Amanda Y, Jaratlerdsiri, Weerachai, Gongora, Jaime, Moran, Christopher, Iriarte, Andrés, McCormack, John, Burgess, Shane C, Edwards, Scott V, Lyons, Eric, Williams, Christina, Breen, Matthew, Howard, Jason T, Gresham, Cathy R, Peterson, Daniel G, Schmitz, Jürgen, Pollock, David D, Haussler, David, Triplett, Eric W, Zhang, Guojie, Irie, Naoki, Jarvis, Erich D, Brochu, Christopher A, Schmidt, Carl J, McCarthy, Fiona M, Faircloth, Brant C, Hoffmann, Federico G, Glenn, Travis C, Gabaldón, Toni, Paten, Benedict, Ray, David A

“… To provide context for the diversification of archosaurs--the group that includes crocodilians, dinosaurs, and birds--we generated draft genomes of three …”
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Protected areas slow declines unevenly across the tetrapod tree of life von Justin Nowakowski, A., Watling, James I., Murray, Alexander, Deichmann, Jessica L., Akre, Thomas S., Muñoz Brenes, Carlos L., Todd, Brian D., McRae, Louise, Freeman, Robin, Frishkoff, Luke O.

“… Protected areas (PAs) are the primary strategy for slowing terrestrial biodiversity loss. Although expansion of PA coverage is prioritized under the Convention …”
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Faunal turnover of marine tetrapods during the Jurassic-Cretaceous transition von Benson, Roger B. J., Druckenmiller, Patrick S.

“… ABSTRACT Marine and terrestrial animals show a mosaic of lineage extinctions and diversifications during the Jurassic–Cretaceous transition. However, despite …”
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On site DNA barcoding by nanopore sequencing von Menegon, Michele, Cantaloni, Chiara, Rodriguez-Prieto, Ana, Centomo, Cesare, Abdelfattah, Ahmed, Rossato, Marzia, Bernardi, Massimo, Xumerle, Luciano, Loader, Simon, Delledonne, Massimo

“… Biodiversity research is becoming increasingly dependent on genomics, which allows the unprecedented digitization and understanding of the planet's biological …”
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No link between population isolation and speciation rate in squamate reptiles von Singhal, Sonal, Colli, Guarino R, Grundler, Maggie R, Costa, Gabriel C, Prates, Ivan, Rabosky, Daniel L

“… Rates of species formation vary widely across the tree of life and contribute to massive disparities in species richness among clades. This variation can …”
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Optimizing Phylogenomics with Rapidly Evolving Long Exons: Comparison with Anchored Hybrid Enrichment and Ultraconserved Elements von Karin, Benjamin R, Gamble, Tony, Jackman, Todd R

“… Abstract Marker selection has emerged as an important component of phylogenomic study design due to rising concerns of the effects of gene tree estimation …”
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A new and large monofenestratan reveals the evolutionary transition to the pterodactyloid pterosaurs von Hone, David William Elliott, Fitch, Adam, Selzer, Stefan, Lauer, René, Lauer, Bruce

“… For over a century, there was a major gap in our understanding of the evolution of the flying Mesozoic reptiles, the pterosaurs, with a major morphological gap …”
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Estimating synchronous demographic changes across populations using hABC and its application for a herpetological community from northeastern Brazil von Gehara, Marcelo, Garda, Adrian A., Werneck, Fernanda P., Oliveira, Eliana F., Fonseca, Emanuel M., Camurugi, Felipe, Magalhães, Felipe de M., Lanna, Flávia M., Sites, Jack W., Marques, Ricardo, Silveira‐Filho, Ricardo, São Pedro, Vinícius A., Colli, Guarino R., Costa, Gabriel C., Burbrink, Frank T.

“… Many studies propose that Quaternary climatic cycles contracted and/or expanded the ranges of species and biomes. Strong expansion–contraction dynamics of …”
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Group living in squamate reptiles: a review of evidence for stable aggregations von Gardner, Michael G., Pearson, Sarah K., Johnston, Gregory R., Schwarz, Michael P.

“… ABSTRACT How sociality evolves and is maintained remains a key question in evolutionary biology. Most studies to date have focused on insects, birds, and …”
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Hidden influence of fire on locally rare and cryptic reptile species von Smith, Annabel L., Lim, Amber Shuo Ying

“… Fire responses in animal communities have been well studied, but little is known about the effects of fire on rare species due to limitations in data and …”
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Integrating Genomics and Biogeography to Unravel the Origin of a Mountain Biota: The Case of a Reptile Endemicity Hotspot in Arabia von Burriel-Carranza, Bernat, Tejero-Cicuéndez, Héctor, Carné, Albert, Mochales-Riaño, Gabriel, Talavera, Adrián, Al Saadi, Saleh, Els, Johannes, Šmíd, Jiří, Tamar, Karin, Tarroso, Pedro, Carranza, Salvador

“… Advances in genomics have greatly enhanced our understanding of mountain biodiversity, providing new insights into the complex and dynamic mechanisms that …”
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