Independent origins or single dispersal? Phylogenetic study supports early Cenozoic origin of three endemic Indo‐Sri Lankan Lygosomine skink genera

The tangled biogeographic history of tarantulas: An African centre of origin rules out the centrifugal model of speciation

(2023) Aritra Biswas et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

The role of sea-level and climate changes in the assembly of Sri Lankan biodiversity: A perspective from the Miocene Jaffna Limestone

(2021) M. Reuter et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Nomenclature of supra-generic units within the Family Scincidae (Squamata)

(2021) GLENN M. SHEA   ZOOTAXA

A little frog leaps a long way: compounded colonizations of the Indian Subcontinent discovered in the tiny Oriental frog genus Microhyla (Amphibia: Microhylidae)

(2020) Vladislav A. Gorin et al.   PeerJ

Origin and intraspecific diversification of the scincid lizard Ateuchosaurus pellopleurus with implications for historical island biogeography of the Central Ryukyus of Japan

(2020) Tomohisa Makino et al.   ZOOLOGISCHER ANZEIGER

India’s biogeographic history through the eyes of blindsnakes- filling the gaps in the global typhlopoid phylogeny

(2020) Chinta Sidharthan et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Island colonization by a ‘rheophilic’ fish: the phylogeography of Garra ceylonensis (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) in Sri Lanka

(2020) Hiranya Sudasinghe et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

A new ancient lineage of frog (Anura: Nyctibatrachidae: Astrobatrachinae subfam. nov.) endemic to the Western Ghats of Peninsular India

(2019) Seenapuram Palaniswamy Vijayakumar et al.   PeerJ

Multilocus phylogeny and a new classification for African, Asian and Indian supple and writhing skinks (Scincidae: Lygosominae)

(2019) Elyse S Freitas et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

GPlates: Building a Virtual Earth Through Deep Time

(2018) R. Dietmar Müller et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Conceptual and statistical problems with the DEC+J model of founder-event speciation and its comparison with DEC via model selection

(2018) Richard H. Ree et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Aridification driven diversification of fan-throated lizards from the Indian subcontinent

(2018) V. Deepak et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Phylogeny and biogeography of the endemic Hemidactylus geckos of the Indian subregion suggest multiple dispersals from Peninsular India to Sri Lanka

(2018) Aparna Lajmi et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

An integrative taxonomic review of the South Asian microhylid genus Uperodon

(2018) SONALI GARG et al.   ZOOTAXA

Paleoclimate determines diversification patterns in the fossorial snake family Uropeltidae Cuvier, 1829

(2017) Vivek Philip Cyriac et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Cryptic species, taxonomic inflation, or a bit of both? New species phenomenon in Sri Lanka as suggested by a phylogeny of dwarf geckos (Reptilia, Squamata, Gekkonidae, Cnemaspis)

(2017) Ishan Agarwal et al.   SYSTEMATICS AND BIODIVERSITY

Arrival and diversification of mabuyine skinks (Squamata: Scincidae) in the Neotropics based on a fossil-calibrated timetree

(2017) Anieli Guirro Pereira et al.   PeerJ

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

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

The biodiversity hotspot as evolutionary hot-bed: spectacular radiation of Erica in the Cape Floristic Region

(2016) M. D. Pirie et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The timing of India-Asia collision onset – Facts, theories, controversies

(2016) Xiumian Hu et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Resolving the higher-order phylogenetic relationships of the circumtropical Mabuya group (Squamata: Scincidae): An out-of-Asia diversification

(2016) Benjamin R. Karin 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

Taxonomy of two endemic Indian skinks, Eutropis bibronii (Gray, 1838)and E. nagarjunensis (Sharma, 1969) (Reptilia: Scincidae), including redescriptions of their types

(2016) A.A. THASUN. AMARASINGHE et al.   ZOOTAXA

Biotic interchange between the Indian subcontinent and mainland Asia through time

(2016) Sebastian Klaus et al.   Nature Communications

Biogeography and speciation of terrestrial fauna in the south-western Australian biodiversity hotspot

(2014) Michael G. Rix et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Asian monsoons in a late Eocene greenhouse world

(2014) A. Licht et al.   NATURE

Cool equatorial terrestrial temperatures and the South Asian monsoon in the Early Eocene: Evidence from the Gurha Mine, Rajasthan, India

(2014) Anumeha Shukla et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Model Selection in Historical Biogeography Reveals that Founder-Event Speciation Is a Crucial Process in Island Clades

(2014) Nicholas J. Matzke   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Paleocene-Eocene foreland basin evolution in the Himalaya of southern Tibet and Nepal: Implications for the age of initial India-Asia collision

(2014) P. G. DeCelles et al.   TECTONICS

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

(2014) S. BLAIR HEDGES   ZOOTAXA

Synchronous turnover of flora, fauna, and climate at the Eocene–Oligocene Boundary in Asia

(2014) Jimin Sun et al.   Scientific Reports

BEAST 2: A Software Platform for Bayesian Evolutionary Analysis

(2014) Remco Bouckaert et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

THE CHALLENGE OF SPECIES DELIMITATION AT THE EXTREMES: DIVERSIFICATION WITHOUT MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGE IN PHILIPPINE SUN SKINKS

(2013) Anthony J. Barley et al.   EVOLUTION

Gondwana dispersion and Asian accretion: Tectonic and palaeogeographic evolution of eastern Tethys

(2013) I. Metcalfe   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Ultrafast Approximation for Phylogenetic Bootstrap

(2013) B. Q. Minh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Phylogeny and divergence times of Australian Sphenomorphus group skinks (Scincidae, Squamata)

(2013) Adam Skinner et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Phylogeny of the Asian Eutropis (Squamata: Scincidae) reveals an ‘into India’ endemic Indian radiation

(2012) Aniruddha Datta-Roy et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Estimating divergence dates and evaluating dating methods using phylogenomic and mitochondrial data in squamate reptiles

(2012) Daniel G. Mulcahy et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Genus-level phylogeny of snakes reveals the origins of species richness in Sri Lanka

(2012) R. Alexander Pyron et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Discovery of a new family of amphibians from northeast India with ancient links to Africa

(2012) R. G. Kamei et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

An Update of Wallace's Zoogeographic Regions of the World

(2012) B. G. Holt et al.   SCIENCE

Late Jurassic–Cenozoic reconstructions of the Indonesian region and the Indian Ocean

(2012) Robert Hall   TECTONOPHYSICS

India-Asia collision was at 24°N and 50 Ma: palaeomagnetic proof from southernmost Asia

(2012) Jun Meng et al.   Scientific Reports

MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods

(2011) K. Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The Phylogenetic Affinities ofTrachylepis Sulcata Nigraand the Intraspecific Evolution of Coastal Melanism in the Western Rock Skink

(2010) Daniel M. Portik et al.   AFRICAN ZOOLOGY

Biogeographic and evolutionary implications of a diverse paleobiota in amber from the early Eocene of India

(2010) J. Rust et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA