Nature Communications (May 2022)

Exceptional parallelisms characterize the evolutionary transition to live birth in phrynosomatid lizards

  • Saúl F. Domínguez-Guerrero,
  • Fausto R. Méndez-de la Cruz,
  • Norma L. Manríquez-Morán,
  • Mark E. Olson,
  • Patricia Galina-Tessaro,
  • Diego M. Arenas-Moreno,
  • Adán Bautista- del Moral,
  • Adriana Benítez-Villaseñor,
  • Héctor Gadsden,
  • Rafael A. Lara-Reséndiz,
  • Carlos A. Maciel-Mata,
  • Francisco J. Muñoz-Nolasco,
  • Rufino Santos-Bibiano,
  • Jorge H. Valdez-Villavicencio,
  • Guillermo A. Woolrich-Piña,
  • Martha M. Muñoz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30535-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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There have been five independent transitions from egg laying to live birth in the phrynosomatid lizards. Here, Domínguez-Guerrero et al. identify parallel changes in physiology, life history and behaviour that characterize these transitions to live birth.