Molecular data offer great potential to resolve the phylogeny of living taxa but can molecular
data improve our understanding of relationships of fossil taxa? Simulations suggest that this …

Squamate reptiles (lizards and snakes) are a pivotal group whose relationships have
become increasingly controversial. Squamates include> 9000 species, making them the …

Two common approaches for estimating phylogenies in species-rich groups are to:(i)
sample many loci for few species (eg phylogenomic approach), or (ii) sample many species …

Genomics is narrowing uncertainty in the phylogenetic structure for many amniote groups.
For one of the most diverse and species-rich groups, the squamate reptiles (lizards, snakes …

Squamate reptiles (lizards and snakes) are one of the most diverse groups of terrestrial
vertebrates. Recent molecular analyses have suggested a very different squamate …

Genome-scale data have the potential to clarify phylogenetic relationships across the tree of
life but have also revealed extensive gene tree conflict. This seeming paradox, whereby …

Here, I combine previously underutilized models and priors to perform more biologically
realistic phylogenetic inference from morphological data, with an example from squamate …

To investigate the affinities of snakes, amphisbaenians and dibamids, the phylogenetic
relationships among the major lineages (families) of extinct and extant squamates are …

Background The highly derived morphology and astounding diversity of snakes has long
inspired debate regarding the ecological and evolutionary origin of both the snake total …

Squamates (lizards, snakes, and their kin such as amphisbaenians, or “worm lizards”)
represent the world's most diverse clade of terrestrial vertebrates with∼ 11,000 described …