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SUBMITTER: Wiens JJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3497141 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wiens John J JJ Hutter Carl R CR Mulcahy Daniel G DG Noonan Brice P BP Townsend Ted M TM Sites Jack W JW Reeder Tod W TW
Biology letters 20120919 6
Squamate reptiles (lizards and snakes) are one of the most diverse groups of terrestrial vertebrates. Recent molecular analyses have suggested a very different squamate phylogeny relative to morphological hypotheses, but many aspects remain uncertain from molecular data. Here, we analyse higher-level squamate phylogeny with a molecular dataset of unprecedented size, including 161 squamate species for up to 44 nuclear genes each (33 717 base pairs), using both concatenated and species-tree method ...[more]