Feeding habits and multifunctional classification of soil‐associated consumers from protists to vertebrates

AM Potapov, F Beaulieu, K Birkhofer… - Biological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Soil organisms drive major ecosystem functions by mineralising carbon and releasing
nutrients during decomposition processes, which supports plant growth, aboveground …

A virtual world of paleontology

JA Cunningham, IA Rahman, S Lautenschlager… - Trends in ecology & …, 2014 - cell.com
Computer-aided visualization and analysis of fossils has revolutionized the study of extinct
organisms. Novel techniques allow fossils to be characterized in three dimensions and in …

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 phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes

RA Pyron, FT Burbrink, JJ Wiens - BMC evolutionary biology, 2013 - Springer
Background The extant squamates (> 9400 known species of lizards and snakes) are one of
the most diverse and conspicuous radiations of terrestrial vertebrates, but no studies have …

Interrogating genomic-scale data for Squamata (lizards, snakes, and amphisbaenians) shows no support for key traditional morphological relationships

FT Burbrink, FG Grazziotin, RA Pyron… - Systematic …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
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 …

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 …

Integrated analyses resolve conflicts over squamate reptile phylogeny and reveal unexpected placements for fossil taxa

TW Reeder, TM Townsend, DG Mulcahy, BP Noonan… - PLOS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Squamate reptiles (lizards and snakes) are a pivotal group whose relationships have
become increasingly controversial. Squamates include> 9000 species, making them the …

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 …

The origin of snakes: revealing the ecology, behavior, and evolutionary history of early snakes using genomics, phenomics, and the fossil record

AY Hsiang, DJ Field, TH Webster, ADB Behlke… - BMC evolutionary …, 2015 - Springer
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 …

Iodine‐enhanced micro‐CT imaging: Methodological refinements for the study of the soft‐tissue anatomy of post‐embryonic vertebrates

PM Gignac, NJ Kley - Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The now widespread use of non‐destructive X‐ray computed tomography (CT) and micro‐
CT (µCT) has greatly augmented our ability to comprehensively detail and quantify the …