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

Biome Shifts and Niche Evolution in Plants

(2014) Michael J. Donoghue et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

First report of a pelvic girdle in the fossil snakeWonambi naracoortensisSmith, 1976, and a revised diagnosis for the genus

(2014) Alessandro Palci et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

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

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

Inferring ancient divergences requires genes with strong phylogenetic signals

(2013) Leonidas Salichos et al.   NATURE

A New Snake Skull from the Paleocene of Bolivia Sheds Light on the Evolution of Macrostomatans

(2013) Agustín Scanferla et al.   PLoS One

The Placental Mammal Ancestor and the Post-K-Pg Radiation of Placentals

(2013) M. A. O'Leary et al.   SCIENCE

The conservation status of the world’s reptiles

(2012) Monika Böhm et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Resolving the phylogeny of lizards and snakes (Squamata) with extensive sampling of genes and species

(2012) J. J. Wiens et al.   Biology Letters

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

INTEGRATING FOSSILS WITH MOLECULAR PHYLOGENIES IMPROVES INFERENCE OF TRAIT EVOLUTION

(2012) Graham J. Slater et al.   EVOLUTION

Bayesian Phylogenetics with BEAUti and the BEAST 1.7

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

A transitional snake from the Late Cretaceous period of North America

(2012) Nicholas R. Longrich et al.   NATURE

Mass extinction of lizards and snakes at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary

(2012) N. R. Longrich et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Total-Evidence Approach to Dating with Fossils, Applied to the Early Radiation of the Hymenoptera

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

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

(2011) R. Alexander Pyron et al.   EVOLUTION

Controversial snake relationships supported by reproductive anatomy

(2011) Dustin S. Siegel et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

Fast, scalable generation of high-quality protein multiple sequence alignments using Clustal Omega

(2011) F. Sievers et al.   Molecular Systems Biology

Mass extinction of birds at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary

(2011) N. R. Longrich et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Divergence Time Estimation Using Fossils as Terminal Taxa and the Origins of Lissamphibia

(2011) R. Alexander Pyron   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

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

phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)

(2011) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Blindsnake evolutionary tree reveals long history on Gondwana

(2010) N. Vidal et al.   Biology Letters

Squamate reptiles from the middle Eocene of Lissieu (France). A landmark in the middle Eocene of Europe

(2010) Jean-Claude Rage et al.   GEOBIOS

Sampling-through-time in birth–death trees

(2010) Tanja Stadler   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

S-DIVA (Statistical Dispersal-Vicariance Analysis): A tool for inferring biogeographic histories

(2010) Yan Yu et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Combining Phylogenomics and Fossils in Higher-Level Squamate Reptile Phylogeny: Molecular Data Change the Placement of Fossil Taxa

(2010) John J. Wiens et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Predation upon Hatchling Dinosaurs by a New Snake from the Late Cretaceous of India

(2010) Jeffrey A. Wilson et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Fossils provide better estimates of ancestral body size than do extant taxa in fishes

(2009) James S. Albert et al.   ACTA ZOOLOGICA

The anatomy of the upper cretaceous snakeNajash rionegrinaApesteguía & Zaher, 2006, and the evolution of limblessness in snakes

(2009) HUSSAM ZAHER et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Phylocom: software for the analysis of phylogenetic community structure and trait evolution

(2008) Campbell O. Webb et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Morphology of the skull of the white-nosed blindsnake,Liotyphlops albirostris(Scolecophidia: Anomalepididae)

(2008) Olivier Rieppel et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

Ambush site selection and ontogenetic shifts in foraging strategy in a semi-aquatic pit viper, the Eastern cottonmouth

(2008) E. A. Eskew et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Dinosaurs and the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution

(2008) G. T Lloyd et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

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

Branch Lengths, Support, and Congruence: Testing the Phylogenomic Approach with 20 Nuclear Loci in Snakes

(2008) John J. Wiens et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Maximum Likelihood Inference of Geographic Range Evolution by Dispersal, Local Extinction, and Cladogenesis

(2008) Richard H. Ree et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY