Recent advances in high-throughput, genomic sequencing allow unprecedented insight into the evolution of biodiversity. Chapter 1 of this thesis is a phylogenetic study of 1,145 sequenced loci, isolated using a novel high-throughput sequence capture methodology to address the phylogenetic position of turtles within tetrapods. The results reported here unambiguously place turtles as sister to archosaurs and resolve this long-standing question. Chapter 2 investigates the genetic basis of colorful pigmentation in the Green anole (Anolis carolinensis) by sequencing complete transcriptomes from the green dorsal, white ventral and pink dewlap skin. Anoles comprise an adaptive radiation of more than 400 species and color plays a central role in ...
Synopsis Genomic resources for studies of nonavian reptiles have recently improved and will reach a ...
The evolution of the amniotic egg was one of the great evolutionary innovations in the history of li...
BACKGROUND: We describe the genome of the western painted turtle, Chrysemys picta bellii, one of the...
BACKGROUND: Comparative studies of amniotes have been hindered by a dearth of reptilian molecular se...
Color and color pattern are critical for animal camouflage, reproduction, and defense. Few studies, ...
Reptiles include more than 10'000 species that collectively exhibit an outstanding variety of phenot...
Determining the mechanistic and genetic basis of animal coloration is essential to understand the co...
The green anole (Anolis carolinensis) is a lizard widespread throughout the southeastern United Stat...
The green anole (Anolis carolinensis) has been widely used as an animal model in physiology and neur...
Adaptive divergence in coloration is expected to produce reproductive isolation in species that use ...
Animal body coloration is a complex trait resulting from the interplay of multiple mechanisms. While...
Reptiles use pterin and carotenoid pigments to produce yellow, orange, and red colors. These conspic...
The pattern of reproductive character displacement (RCD)—in which traits associated with reproductiv...
Animal coloration has traditionally been the target of genetic and evolutionary studies. However, un...
We report results of a megabase-scale phylogenomic analysis of the Reptilia, the sister group of mam...
Synopsis Genomic resources for studies of nonavian reptiles have recently improved and will reach a ...
The evolution of the amniotic egg was one of the great evolutionary innovations in the history of li...
BACKGROUND: We describe the genome of the western painted turtle, Chrysemys picta bellii, one of the...
BACKGROUND: Comparative studies of amniotes have been hindered by a dearth of reptilian molecular se...
Color and color pattern are critical for animal camouflage, reproduction, and defense. Few studies, ...
Reptiles include more than 10'000 species that collectively exhibit an outstanding variety of phenot...
Determining the mechanistic and genetic basis of animal coloration is essential to understand the co...
The green anole (Anolis carolinensis) is a lizard widespread throughout the southeastern United Stat...
The green anole (Anolis carolinensis) has been widely used as an animal model in physiology and neur...
Adaptive divergence in coloration is expected to produce reproductive isolation in species that use ...
Animal body coloration is a complex trait resulting from the interplay of multiple mechanisms. While...
Reptiles use pterin and carotenoid pigments to produce yellow, orange, and red colors. These conspic...
The pattern of reproductive character displacement (RCD)—in which traits associated with reproductiv...
Animal coloration has traditionally been the target of genetic and evolutionary studies. However, un...
We report results of a megabase-scale phylogenomic analysis of the Reptilia, the sister group of mam...
Synopsis Genomic resources for studies of nonavian reptiles have recently improved and will reach a ...
The evolution of the amniotic egg was one of the great evolutionary innovations in the history of li...
BACKGROUND: We describe the genome of the western painted turtle, Chrysemys picta bellii, one of the...