Large-scale molecular phylogeny, morphology, divergence-time estimation, and the fossil record of advanced caenophidian snakes (Squamata: Serpentes)

A new subfamily of fossorial colubroid snakes from the Western Ghats of peninsular India

(2019) V. Deepak et al.   JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY

Discovery of an old, archipelago-wide, endemic radiation of Philippine snakes

(2018) Jeffrey L. Weinell et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Renewing Felsenstein’s phylogenetic bootstrap in the era of big data

(2018) F. Lemoine et al.   NATURE

Phylogenomics using formalin-fixed and 100+ year-old intractable natural history specimens

(2017) Sara Ruane et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Fully-sampled phylogenies of squamates reveal evolutionary patterns in threat status

(2016) João Filipe Riva Tonini et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Integrative taxonomy provides evidence for the species status of the Ibero-Maghrebian grass snakeNatrix astreptophora

(2016) Felix Pokrant et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Visual Pigments, Ocular Filters and the Evolution of Snake Vision

(2016) Bruno F. Simões et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Phylogenomic analyses reveal novel relationships among snake families

(2016) Jeffrey W. Streicher et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Diversification in vipers: Phylogenetic relationships, time of divergence and shifts in speciation rates

(2016) Laura R.V. Alencar et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Combining phylogenomic and supermatrix approaches, and a time-calibrated phylogeny for squamate reptiles (lizards and snakes) based on 52 genes and 4162 species

(2016) Yuchi Zheng et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

A revision and key for the tribe Diaphorolepidini (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) and checklist for the genus Synophis

(2016) R. ALEXANDER PYRON et al.   ZOOTAXA

A Species-Level Phylogeny of Extant Snakes with Description of a New Colubrid Subfamily and Genus

(2016) Alex Figueroa et al.   PLoS One

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

(2015) Allison Y Hsiang et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

A late Eocene snake fauna from the Fayum Depression, Egypt

(2015) Jacob A. Mccartney et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Evolutionary stability of sex chromosomes in snakes

(2015) Michail Rovatsos et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Applications of the “Molecular Clock” in Systematic Biology

(2015) Charles D. Bell   SYSTEMATIC BOTANY

Systematics of Nothopsini (Serpentes, Dipsadidae), with a new species of Synophis from the Pacific Andean slopes of southwestern Ecuador

(2015) Robert Pyron et al.   ZooKeys

A new genus and species of xenodermatid snake (Squamata: Caenophidia: Xenodermatidae) from northern Lao People’s Democratic Republic

(2015) ALEXANDRE TEYNIÉ et al.   ZOOTAXA

Reclassification of Oligodon ningshaanensis Yuan, 1983(Ophidia:Colubridae) into a New Genus, Stichophanes gen. nov. with Description on Its Malacophagous Behavior

(2015) WANG Xiaohe et al.   Asian Herpetological Research

An Overview of the South American Fossil Squamates

(2014) Adriana María Albino et al.   Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology

The Early Miocene squamates of Amöneburg (Germany): the first stages of modern squamates in Europe

(2014) Andrej Čerňanský et al.   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

Molecular-clock methods for estimating evolutionary rates and timescales

(2014) Simon Y. W. Ho et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Effectiveness of phylogenomic data and coalescent species-tree methods for resolving difficult nodes in the phylogeny of advanced snakes (Serpentes: Caenophidia)

(2014) R. Alexander Pyron et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

The Earliest Colubroid-Dominated Snake Fauna from Africa: Perspectives from the Late Oligocene Nsungwe Formation of Southwestern Tanzania

(2014) Jacob A. McCartney et al.   PLoS One

New data on the morphology and distribution of the enigmatic Schouteden’s sun snake, Helophis schoutedeni (de Witte, 1922) from the Congo Basin

(2014) ZOLTÁN T. NAGY et al.   ZOOTAXA

Amphibians and squamates from the middle Eocene of Namibia, with comments on pre-Miocene anurans from Africa

(2013) Jean-Claude Rage et al.   ANNALES DE PALEONTOLOGIE

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

(2013) R Pyron et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Early Oligocene to Pliocene Colubridae of Europe: a review

(2013) Zbigniew Szyndlar   BULLETIN DE LA SOCIETE GEOLOGIQUE DE FRANCE

treePL: divergence time estimation using penalized likelihood for large phylogenies

(2012) Stephen A. Smith et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data

(2012) M. Kearse et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Assembling the Squamate Tree of Life: Perspectives from the Phenotype and the Fossil Record

(2012) Jacques A. Gauthier et al.   Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History

Molecular phylogeny of the New World Dipsadidae (Serpentes: Colubroidea): a reappraisal

(2012) Felipe G. Grazziotin et al.   CLADISTICS

Bayesian Phylogenetics with BEAUti and the BEAST 1.7

(2012) Alexei J. Drummond et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

PartitionFinder: Combined Selection of Partitioning Schemes and Substitution Models for Phylogenetic Analyses

(2012) R. Lanfear et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Initiation of the western branch of the East African Rift coeval with the eastern branch

(2012) E. M. Roberts et al.   Nature Geoscience

New constraints on the evolution of the snake clades Ungaliophiinae, Loxocemidae and Colubridae (Serpentes), with comments on the fossil history of erycine boids in North America

(2012) Krister T. Smith   ZOOLOGISCHER ANZEIGER

A New Genus and New Tribe forEnicognathus melanauchenJan, 1863, a Neglected South American Snake (Colubridae: Xenodontinae), with Taxonomic Notes on Some Dipsadinae

(2011) Charles W. Myers   AMERICAN MUSEUM NOVITATES

The Evolution of Mid-Latitude Faunas During the Eocene: Late Eocene Lizards of the Medicine Pole Hills Reconsidered

(2011) Krister T. Smith   Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History

EXTINCTION, ECOLOGICAL OPPORTUNITY, AND THE ORIGINS OF GLOBAL SNAKE DIVERSITY

(2011) R. Alexander Pyron et al.   EVOLUTION

The age of the “Grande Coupure” mammal turnover: New constraints from the Eocene–Oligocene record of the Eastern Ebro Basin (NE Spain)

(2011) Elisenda Costa et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Best Practices for Justifying Fossil Calibrations

(2011) James F. Parham et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

The skull of the Upper Cretaceous snake Dinilysia patagonica Smith-Woodward, 1901, and its phylogenetic position revisited

(2011) HUSSAM ZAHER et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Phylogenetic relationships among the Stiletto Snakes (genusAtractaspis) based on external morphology

(2011) Katie Moyer et al.   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY

A Diverse Snake Fauna from the Early Eocene of Vastan Lignite Mine, Gujarat, India

(2010) Jean-Claude Rage et al.   ACTA PALAEONTOLOGICA POLONICA

An Ailuravine Rodent from the Lower Eocene Cambay Formation at Vastan, Western India, and Its Palaeobiogeographic Implications

(2010) Rajendra S. Rana et al.   ACTA PALAEONTOLOGICA POLONICA

Early Eocene warming events and the timing of terrestrial faunal exchange between India and Asia

(2010) Mark Clementz et al.   GEOLOGY

The phylogeny of advanced snakes (Colubroidea), with discovery of a new subfamily and comparison of support methods for likelihood trees

(2010) R. Alexander Pyron et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0

(2010) Stéphane Guindon et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Phylogeny, biogeography and classification of the snake superfamily Elapoidea: a rapid radiation in the late Eocene

(2009) Christopher M. R. Kelly et al.   CLADISTICS

Sedimentology and depositional environments of the Red Sandstone Group, Rukwa Rift Basin, southwestern Tanzania: New insight into Cretaceous and Paleogene terrestrial ecosystems and tectonics in sub-equatorial Africa

(2009) Eric M. Roberts et al.   JOURNAL OF AFRICAN EARTH SCIENCES

A hyracoid from the Late Oligocene Red Sandstone Group of Tanzania,Rukwalorax jinokitana(gen. and sp. nov.)

(2009) Nancy J. Stevens et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Kahawamys mbeyaensis(n. gen., n. sp.) (Rodentia: Thryonomyoidea) from the late Oligocene Rukwa Rift Basin, Tanzania

(2009) Nancy J. Stevens et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Biochemical evaluation of colubrid snake phylogeny*

(2009) Herndon G. Dowlings et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

On the vomer in Acrochordidae (Reptilia: Serpentes), and its cladistic significance

(2009) B. Groombridge   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Comments on the paper by Pleijel et al. (2008): Vouching for GenBank

(2009) Scott Federhen et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Giant boid snake from the Palaeocene neotropics reveals hotter past equatorial temperatures

(2009) Jason J. Head et al.   NATURE

Global Cooling During the Eocene-Oligocene Climate Transition

(2009) Z. Liu et al.   SCIENCE

Extinction and environmental change across the Eocene-Oligocene boundary in Tanzania

(2008) Paul N. Pearson et al.   GEOLOGY

A nesting of vipers: Phylogeny and historical biogeography of the Viperidae (Squamata: Serpentes)

(2008) Wolfgang Wüster et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Evolutionary origin and development of snake fangs

(2008) Freek J. Vonk et al.   NATURE

The Taming of the Skew: Estimating Proper Confidence Intervals for Divergence Dates

(2008) Frank T. Burbrink et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Molecular evidence for a rapid late-Miocene radiation of Australasian venomous snakes (Elapidae, Colubroidea)

(2007) Kate L. Sanders et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION