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Arms race of temporal partitioning between carnivorous and herbivorous mammals

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Out of the dark: 350 million years of conservatism and evolution in diel activity patterns in vertebrates

(2017) Samantha R. Anderson et al.   EVOLUTION

Oxygen isotopes suggest elevated thermometabolism within multiple Permo-Triassic therapsid clades

(2017) Kévin Rey et al.   eLife

Invasion of Ancestral Mammals into Dim-light Environments Inferred from Adaptive Evolution of the Phototransduction Genes

(2017) Yonghua Wu et al.   Scientific Reports

Rethinking the Origin of Primates by Reconstructing Their Diel Activity Patterns Using Genetics and Morphology

(2017) Yonghua Wu et al.   Scientific Reports

A phenology of the evolution of endothermy in birds and mammals

(2016) Barry G. Lovegrove   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Palaeohistological Evidence for Ancestral High Metabolic Rate in Archosaurs

(2016) Lucas J. Legendre et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Seasonal reproductive endothermy in tegu lizards

(2016) G. J. Tattersall et al.   Science Advances

Retinal transcriptome sequencing sheds light on the adaptation to nocturnal and diurnal lifestyles in raptors

(2016) Yonghua Wu et al.   Scientific Reports

Gene-Wide Identification of Episodic Selection

(2015) Ben Murrell et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Rapid diversification of falcons (Aves: Falconidae) due to expansion of open habitats in the Late Miocene

(2015) Jérôme Fuchs et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

A phylogenomic analysis of turtles

(2015) Nicholas G. Crawford et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

A comprehensive phylogeny of birds (Aves) using targeted next-generation DNA sequencing

(2015) Richard O. Prum et al.   NATURE

Isotopic ordering in eggshells reflects body temperatures and suggests differing thermophysiology in two Cretaceous dinosaurs

(2015) Robert A. Eagle et al.   Nature Communications

Kiwi genome provides insights into evolution of a nocturnal lifestyle

(2015) Diana Le Duc et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Nocturnality in synapsids predates the origin of mammals by over 100 million years

(2014) K. D. Angielczyk et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

An integrative approach to understanding bird origins

(2014) X. Xu et al.   SCIENCE

Evidence for mesothermy in dinosaurs

(2014) J. M. Grady et al.   SCIENCE

Sustained miniaturization and anatomical innovation in the dinosaurian ancestors of birds

(2014) M. S. Y. Lee et al.   SCIENCE

Three crocodilian genomes reveal ancestral patterns of evolution among archosaurs

(2014) R. E. Green et al.   SCIENCE

Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds

(2014) E. D. Jarvis et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2013) R Pyron et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Toward a Tree-of-Life for the boas and pythons: Multilocus species-level phylogeny with unprecedented taxon sampling

(2013) R. Graham Reynolds et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

The nocturnal bottleneck and the evolution of activity patterns in mammals

(2013) M. P. Gerkema et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Evolution of phototransduction, vertebrate photoreceptors and retina

(2013) Trevor D. Lamb   PROGRESS IN RETINAL AND EYE RESEARCH

More than 1000 ultraconserved elements provide evidence that turtles are the sister group of archosaurs

(2012) N. G. Crawford et al.   Biology Letters

Diurnal and Nocturnal Birds Vocalize at Night: A Review

(2012)   CONDOR

The Relationship between Slow Photoresponse Recovery Rate and Temporal Resolution of Vision

(2012) Y. Umino et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Eye shape and the nocturnal bottleneck of mammals

(2012) M. I. Hall et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Molecular Phylogeny of Owls (Strigiformes) Inferred from DNA Sequences of the Mitochondrial Cytochromeband the NuclearRAG-1gene

(2011) Michael Wink et al.   ARDEA

Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome

(2011) Manfred G Grabherr et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Comment on "Nocturnality in Dinosaurs Inferred from Scleral Ring and Orbit Morphology"

(2011) M. I. Hall et al.   SCIENCE

Nocturnality in Dinosaurs Inferred from Scleral Ring and Orbit Morphology

(2011) L. Schmitz et al.   SCIENCE

Eye size, flight speed and Leuckart's Law in birds

(2010) M. I. Hall et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Behaviour and Physiology: The Thermal Strategy of Leatherback Turtles

(2010) Brian L. Bostrom et al.   PLoS One

Evolution of vertebrate rod and cone phototransduction genes

(2009) D. Larhammar et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Evolution of Dim-Light and Color Vision Pigments

(2008) Shozo Yokoyama   Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

The anatomical relationships between the avian eye, orbit and sclerotic ring: implications for inferring activity patterns in extinct birds

(2008) Margaret I. Hall   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

A Multilocus Molecular Phylogeny of the Parrots (Psittaciformes): Support for a Gondwanan Origin during the Cretaceous

(2008) Timothy F. Wright et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A Phylogenomic Study of Birds Reveals Their Evolutionary History

(2008) S. J. Hackett et al.   SCIENCE