Motivation I present a database that contains information on multiple key traits for all 11,744
recognised species of squamates worldwide. The database encompasses key traits and a …

Climate change due to natural human activity is a significant global phenomenon affecting
the sustainability of most countries' livestock industries. Climate change factors such as …

Independent origins of similar phenotypes are ubiquitous to the evolutionary process and
evoke strong and recurrent environmental associations. Snakelike lizards evolved multiple …

Secondary transitions to aquatic environments are common among vertebrates, and aquatic
lineages display several adaptations to this realm, some of which might make these …

Aim Limb reduction is a dramatic evolutionary transition, yet whether it is achieved in similar
trajectories across clades, and its environmental drivers, remain unclear. We investigate the …

Scincidae is one of the most species-rich and cosmopolitan clades of squamate reptiles.
Abundant disarticulated fossil material has also been attributed to this group, however, no …

Among living tetrapods, many lineages have converged on a snake-like body plan, where
extreme axial elongation is accompanied by reduction or loss of paired limbs. However …

Aim Limb‐reduced squamates are a convenient model system to investigate
macroevolutionary trends in morphology. Here, we provide morphological, ecological and …

In animals, the success of particular lineages can be measured in terms of their number of
species, the extent of their geographic range, the breadth of their habitats and ecological …

Limb loss shows recurrent phenotypic evolution across squamate lineages. Here, based on
three de novo-assembled genomes of limbless lizards from different lineages, we showed …