Noise and biases in genomic data may underlie radically different hypotheses for the position of Iguania within Squamata.

Squamate reptiles are a major component of vertebrate biodiversity whose crown-clade traces its origin to a narrow window of time in the Mesozoic during which the main subclades diverged in rapid succession. Deciphering phylogenetic relationships among these lineages has proven challenging given the...

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Main Authors: Nicolás Mongiardino Koch, Jacques A Gauthier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6105018?pdf=render