Evolution of sex-biased dispersal

A Trochet, EA Courtois, VM Stevens… - … Quarterly Review of …, 2016 - journals.uchicago.edu
Dispersal is central in ecology and evolution because it influences population regulation,
adaptation, and speciation. In many species, dispersal is different between genders, leading …

A brief review of vertebrate sex evolution with a pledge for integrative research: towards 'sexomics'

M Stöck, L Kratochvíl, H Kuhl… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Triggers and biological processes controlling male or female gonadal differentiation vary in
vertebrates, with sex determination (SD) governed by environmental factors or simple to …

Species list of the European herpetofauna–2020 update by the Taxonomic Committee of the Societas Europaea Herpetologica

J Speybroeck, W Beukema, C Dufresnes, U Fritz… - Amphibia-Reptilia, 2020 - brill.com
The last species list of the European herpetofauna was published by Speybroeck, Beukema
and Crochet (2010). In the meantime, ongoing research led to numerous taxonomic …

Atlas of Brazilian snakes: verified point-locality maps to mitigate the Wallacean shortfall in a megadiverse snake fauna

CC Nogueira, AJS Argôlo, V Arzamendia… - South American Journal …, 2019 - BioOne
Accurate and detailed species distribution maps are fundamental for documenting and
interpreting biological diversity. For snakes, an ecologically diverse group of reptiles …

Large-scale molecular phylogeny, morphology, divergence-time estimation, and the fossil record of advanced caenophidian snakes (Squamata: Serpentes)

H Zaher, RW Murphy, JC Arredondo, R Graboski… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Caenophidian snakes include the file snake genus Acrochordus and advanced
colubroidean snakes that radiated mainly during the Neogene. Although caenophidian …

A species-level phylogeny of extant snakes with description of a new colubrid subfamily and genus

A Figueroa, AD McKelvy, LL Grismer, CD Bell… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Background With over 3,500 species encompassing a diverse range of morphologies and
ecologies, snakes make up 36% of squamate diversity. Despite several attempts at …

Phylotranscriptomic consolidation of the jawed vertebrate timetree

I Irisarri, D Baurain, H Brinkmann, F Delsuc… - Nature ecology & …, 2017 - nature.com
Phylogenomics is extremely powerful but introduces new challenges as no agreement exists
on 'standards' for data selection, curation and tree inference. We use jawed vertebrates …

The origin of squamates revealed by a Middle Triassic lizard from the Italian Alps

TR Simoes, MW Caldwell, M Tałanda, M Bernardi… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Modern squamates (lizards, snakes and amphisbaenians) are the world's most diverse
group of tetrapods along with birds 1 and have a long evolutionary history, with the oldest …

Traits of lizards of the world: Variation around a successful evolutionary design

S Meiri - Global ecology and biogeography, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Motivation over the last 12 years I have been collecting trait and geographic data on lizards.
These data could be useful for scientists studying this remarkable reptilian radiation …

The origins and evolution of chromosomes, dosage compensation, and mechanisms underlying venom regulation in snakes

DR Schield, DC Card, NR Hales, BW Perry… - Genome …, 2019 - genome.cshlp.org
Here we use a chromosome-level genome assembly of a prairie rattlesnake (Crotalus
viridis), together with Hi-C, RNA-seq, and whole-genome resequencing data, to study key …