Swimming through the sands of the Sahara and Arabian deserts: Phylogeny of sandfish skinks (Scincidae, Scincus) reveals a recent and rapid diversification

Surprising simplicities and syntheses in limbless self-propulsion in sand

(2020) Henry C. Astley et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Evolution of fossorial locomotion in the transition from tetrapod to snake-like in lizards

(2020) Gen Morinaga et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Phylotranscriptomic evidence for pervasive ancient hybridization among Old World salamanders

(2020) Loïs Rancilhac et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

An integrative assessment of the diversity, phylogeny, distribution, and conservation of the terrestrial reptiles (Sauropsida, Squamata) of the United Arab Emirates

(2019) Bernat Burriel-Carranza et al.   PLoS One

Calibrating the tree of vipers under the fossilized birth-death model

(2019) Jiří Šmíd et al.   Scientific Reports

The role of climatic cycles and trans-Saharan migration corridors in species diversification: Biogeography of Psammophis schokari group in North Africa

(2018) Duarte Vasconcelos Gonçalves et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Diversity, distribution and conservation of the terrestrial reptiles of Oman (Sauropsida, Squamata)

(2018) Salvador Carranza et al.   PLoS One

UFBoot2: Improving the Ultrafast Bootstrap Approximation

(2017) Diep Thi Hoang et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Bayesian Inference of Species Networks from Multilocus Sequence Data

(2017) Chi Zhang et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The global distribution of tetrapods reveals a need for targeted reptile conservation

(2017) Uri Roll et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Out of Africa: Phylogeny and biogeography of the widespread genus Acanthodactylus (Reptilia: Lacertidae)

(2016) Karin Tamar 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

W-IQ-TREE: a fast online phylogenetic tool for maximum likelihood analysis

(2016) Jana Trifinopoulos et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

popart: full-feature software for haplotype network construction

(2015) Jessica W. Leigh et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Distinct Patterns of Desynchronized Limb Regression in Malagasy Scincine Lizards (Squamata, Scincidae)

(2015) Aurélien Miralles et al.   PLoS One

IQ-TREE: A Fast and Effective Stochastic Algorithm for Estimating Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies

(2014) Lam-Tung Nguyen et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Aridification of the Sahara desert caused by Tethys Sea shrinkage during the Late Miocene

(2014) Zhongshi Zhang et al.   NATURE

Analysis and Visualization of Complex Macroevolutionary Dynamics: An Example from Australian Scincid Lizards

(2014) Daniel L. Rabosky et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran

(2014) JIŘÍ ŠMÍD et al.   ZOOTAXA

The high-level classification of skinks (Reptilia, Squamata, Scincomorpha)

(2014) S. BLAIR HEDGES   ZOOTAXA

BEAST 2: A Software Platform for Bayesian Evolutionary Analysis

(2014) Remco Bouckaert et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

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

(2013) R Pyron et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

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

(2012) M. Kearse et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Forgotten Biodiversity in Desert Ecosystems

(2012) S. M. Durant et al.   SCIENCE

MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic Insights on Evolutionary Novelties in Lizards and Snakes: Sex, Birth, Bodies, Niches, and Venom

(2011) Jack W. Sites et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

CALIBRATING DIVERGENCE TIMES ON SPECIES TREES VERSUS GENE TREES: IMPLICATIONS FOR SPECIATION HISTORY OF APHELOCOMA JAYS

(2010) John E. McCormack et al.   EVOLUTION

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

(2010) Stéphane Guindon et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Computation vs. cloning: evaluation of two methods for haplotype determination

(2009) RYAN J. HARRIGAN et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

seqphase: a web tool for interconverting phase input/output files and fasta sequence alignments

(2009) J-F. FLOT   Molecular Ecology Resources

Undulatory Swimming in Sand: Subsurface Locomotion of the Sandfish Lizard

(2009) R. D. Maladen et al.   SCIENCE

Rapid and repeated limb loss in a clade of scincid lizards

(2008) Adam Skinner et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

RATES AND PATTERNS IN THE EVOLUTION OF SNAKE-LIKE BODY FORM IN SQUAMATE REPTILES: EVIDENCE FOR REPEATED RE-EVOLUTION OF LOST DIGITS AND LONG-TERM PERSISTENCE OF INTERMEDIATE BODY FORMS

(2008) Matthew C. Brandley et al.   EVOLUTION

Rapid development of multiple nuclear loci for phylogenetic analysis using genomic resources: An example from squamate reptiles

(2008) Ted M. Townsend et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Investigating the Locomotion of the Sandfish in Desert Sand Using NMR-Imaging

(2008) Werner Baumgartner et al.   PLoS One

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

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

Radiation, multiple dispersal and parallelism in the skinks, Chalcides and Sphenops (Squamata: Scincidae), with comments on Scincus and Scincopus and the age of the Sahara Desert

(2007) S. Carranza et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION