Genome evolution and the future of phylogenomics of non-avian reptiles

DC Card, WB Jennings, SV Edwards - Animals, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
Simple Summary As a group of organisms, non-avian reptiles, most of which are the~
11,000 species of lizards and snakes, are an extraordinarily diverse group, displaying a …

The macroevolutionary singularity of snakes

PO Title, S Singhal, MC Grundler, GC Costa, RA Pyron… - Science, 2024‏ - science.org
Snakes and lizards (Squamata) represent a third of terrestrial vertebrates and exhibit
spectacular innovations in locomotion, feeding, and sensory processing. However, the …

StarBeast3: adaptive parallelized Bayesian inference under the multispecies coalescent

J Douglas, CL Jiménez-Silva, R Bouckaert - Systematic Biology, 2022‏ - academic.oup.com
As genomic sequence data become increasingly available, inferring the phylogeny of the
species as that of concatenated genomic data can be enticing. However, this approach …

Cryptic diversity in the Mexican highlands: thousands of UCE loci help illuminate phylogenetic relationships, species limits and divergence times of montane …

C Blair, RW Bryson Jr, CW Linkem… - Molecular Ecology …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
With the continued adoption of genome‐scale data in evolutionary biology comes the
challenge of adequately harnessing the information to make accurate phylogenetic …

Organellar DNA continues to provide a rich source of information in the genomics era

C Blair - 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
The genomics revolution continues to change how ecologists and evolutionary biologists
study the evolution and maintenance of biodiversity. It is now easier than ever to generate …

Exploring data processing strategies in NGS target enrichment to disentangle radiations in the tribe Cardueae (Compositae)

S Herrando-Moraira, JA Calleja, P Carnicero… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Target enrichment is a cost-effective sequencing technique that holds promise for
elucidating evolutionary relationships in fast-evolving lineages. However, potential biases …

Dense geographic and genomic sampling reveals paraphyly and a cryptic lineage in a classic sibling species complex

E Linck, K Epperly, P Van Els, GM Spellman… - Systematic …, 2019‏ - academic.oup.com
Incomplete or geographically biased sampling poses significant problems for research in
phylogeography, population genetics, phylogenetics, and species delimitation. Despite the …

Multilocus phylogeny and a new classification for African, Asian and Indian supple and writhing skinks (Scincidae: Lygosominae)

ES Freitas, A Datta-Roy, P Karanth… - Zoological Journal of …, 2019‏ - academic.oup.com
Abstract The genera Lepidothyris, Lygosoma and Mochlus comprise the writhing or supple
skinks, a group of semi-fossorial, elongate-bodied skinks distributed across the Old World …

Combining ultraconserved elements and mtDNA data to uncover lineage diversity in a Mexican highland frog (Sarcohyla; Hylidae)

E Zarza, EM Connors, JM Maley, WLE Tsai, P Heimes… - PeerJ, 2018‏ - peerj.com
Molecular studies have uncovered significant diversity in the Mexican Highlands, leading to
the description of many new endemic species. DNA approaches to this kind of species …

Between a rock and a dry place: phylogenomics, biogeography, and systematics of ridge-tailed monitors (Squamata: Varanidae: Varanus acanthurus complex)

CJ Pavón-Vázquez, D Esquerré, AJ Fitch… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Genomic data are a powerful tool for the elucidation of evolutionary patterns at the
population level and above. The combined analysis of genomic and morphological data can …