Deep learning is driving recent advances behind many everyday technologies, including
speech and image recognition, natural language processing and autonomous driving. It is …

The emergence of a new phylogeny of ray-finned fishes at the turn of the twenty-first century
marked a paradigm shift in understanding the evolutionary history of half of living …

Accurate and detailed species distribution maps are fundamental for documenting and
interpreting biological diversity. For snakes, an ecologically diverse group of reptiles …

Molecular phylogenies have yielded strong support for many parts of the amphibian Tree of
Life, but poor support for the resolution of deeper nodes, including relationships among …

Snakes and lizards (Squamata) represent a third of terrestrial vertebrates and exhibit
spectacular innovations in locomotion, feeding, and sensory processing. However, the …

We updated the checklists of extant, native amphibians and reptiles of China based on the
previously published checklist of reptiles in 2015, the online checklist of amphibians on the …

Phylogenomic subsampling is a procedure by which small sets of loci are selected from
large genome-scale data sets and used for phylogenetic inference. This step is often …

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 …

Snakes are a remarkable squamate lineage with unique morphological adaptations,
especially those related to the evolution of vertebrate skeletons, organs, and sensory …

The purging of deleterious alleles has been hypothesized to mitigate inbreeding depression,
but its effectiveness in endangered species remains debatable. To understand how …