Evolutionary origins of viviparity consistent with palaeoclimate and lineage diversification

The comparative genomic landscape of adaptive radiation in crater lake cichlid fishes

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Differential reproductive investment in co-occurring oviparous and viviparous common lizards (Zootoca vivipara) and implications for life-history trade-offs with viviparity

(2019) Hans Recknagel et al.   OECOLOGIA

Rates of niche and phenotype evolution lag behind diversification in a temperate radiation

(2019) Ryan A. Folk et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Paradox Behind the Pattern of Rapid Adaptive Radiation: How Can the Speciation Process Sustain Itself Through an Early Burst?

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Macroevolutionary diversification with limited niche disparity in a species-rich lineage of cold-climate lizards

(2018) Ashley M. Reaney et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

A global test of the cold-climate hypothesis for the evolution of viviparity of squamate reptiles

(2018) Liang Ma et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Common lizards break Dollo’s law of irreversibility: Genome-wide phylogenomics support a single origin of viviparity and re-evolution of oviparity

(2018) Hans Recknagel et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

How mountains shape biodiversity: the role of the Andes in biogeography, diversification and reproductive biology in South America's most species rich lizard radiation (Squamata: Liolaemidae)

(2018) Damien Esquerré et al.   EVOLUTION

Hypoxia and hypothermia as rival agents of selection driving the evolution of viviparity in lizards

(2017) Daniel Pincheira-Donoso et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Inference of Evolutionary Jumps in Large Phylogenies using Lévy Processes

(2017) Pablo Duchen et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Ecological Opportunity and Adaptive Radiation

(2016) James T. Stroud et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Repeated evolution of viviparity in phrynosomatid lizards constrained interspecific diversification in some life-history traits

(2016) J. Jaime Zúñiga-Vega et al.   Biology Letters

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

Cranial shape evolution in adaptive radiations of birds: comparative morphometrics of Darwin's finches and Hawaiian honeycreepers

(2016) Masayoshi Tokita et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Predictable convergence in hemoglobin function has unpredictable molecular underpinnings

(2016) Chandrasekhar Natarajan et al.   SCIENCE

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(2016) Guangchuang Yu et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The Influence of Paleoclimate on Present-Day Patterns in Biodiversity and Ecosystems

(2015) Jens-Christian Svenning et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

The geography of snake reproductive mode: a global analysis of the evolution of snake viviparity

(2015) Anat Feldman et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Which came first: The lizard or the egg? Robustness in phylogenetic reconstruction of ancestral states

(2015) April M. Wright et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

Epoch-based likelihood models reveal no evidence for accelerated evolution of viviparity in squamate reptiles in response to cenozoic climate change

(2015) Benedict King et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

Evolution of viviparity in squamate reptiles: Reversibility reconsidered

(2015) Daniel G. Blackburn   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

Genetic Enablers Underlying the Clustered Evolutionary Origins of C4 Photosynthesis in Angiosperms

(2015) Pascal-Antoine Christin et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Widespread flower color convergence in Solanaceae via alternate biochemical pathways

(2015) Julienne Ng et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Widespread convergence in toxin resistance by predictable molecular evolution

(2015) Beata Ujvari et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Model Inadequacy and Mistaken Inferences of Trait-Dependent Speciation

(2015) Daniel L. Rabosky et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Late bloomers and baby boomers: ecological drivers of longevity in squamates and the tuatara

(2014) Inon Scharf et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Reproductive mode evolution in lizards revisited: updated analyses examining geographic, climatic and phylogenetic effects support the cold-climate hypothesis

(2014) C. M. Watson et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

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

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

Parallel evolution of Nicaraguan crater lake cichlid fishes via non-parallel routes

(2014) Kathryn R. Elmer et al.   Nature Communications

Early origin of viviparity and multiple reversions to oviparity in squamate reptiles

(2013) R. Alexander Pyron et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

EVOLUTION OF VIVIPARITY: A PHYLOGENETIC TEST OF THE COLD-CLIMATE HYPOTHESIS IN PHRYNOSOMATID LIZARDS

(2013) Shea M. Lambert et al.   EVOLUTION

The evolution of viviparity opens opportunities for lizard radiation but drives it into a climatic cul-de-sac

(2013) Daniel Pincheira-Donoso et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Rates of speciation and morphological evolution are correlated across the largest vertebrate radiation

(2013) Daniel L. Rabosky et al.   Nature Communications

Genomic analysis of a key innovation in an experimental Escherichia coli population

(2012) Zachary D. Blount et al.   NATURE

Ecological opportunity and sexual selection together predict adaptive radiation

(2012) Catherine E. Wagner et al.   NATURE

Community-wide convergent evolution in insect adaptation to toxic cardenolides by substitutions in the Na,K-ATPase

(2012) S. Dobler et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

The serpent and the egg: unidirectional evolution of reproductive mode in vipers?

(2011) Allyson M. Fenwick et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH

Evolution of Placentas in the Fish Family Poeciliidae: An Empirical Study of Macroevolution

(2009) B.J.A. Pollux et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Live birth among Iguanian lizards predates Pliocene-Pleistocene glaciations

(2009) J. A. Schulte et al.   Biology Letters

LIVE-BIRTH IN VIPERS (VIPERIDAE) IS A KEY INNOVATION AND ADAPTATION TO GLOBAL COOLING DURING THE CENOZOIC

(2009) Vincent J. Lynch   EVOLUTION

DID EGG-LAYING BOAS BREAK DOLLO'S LAW? PHYLOGENETIC EVIDENCE FOR REVERSAL TO OVIPARITY IN SAND BOAS (ERYX: BOIDAE)

(2009) Vincent J. Lynch et al.   EVOLUTION

Are rates of species diversification correlated with rates of morphological evolution?

(2009) D. C. Adams et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

ESTIMATING SURVIVAL RATES OF UNCATCHABLE ANIMALS: THE MYTH OF HIGH JUVENILE MORTALITY IN REPTILES

(2008) David A. Pike et al.   ECOLOGY

An early Cenozoic perspective on greenhouse warming and carbon-cycle dynamics

(2008) James C. Zachos et al.   NATURE