Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

Environmental temperatures shape thermal physiology as well as diversification and genome-wide substitution rates in lizards

  • Joan Garcia-Porta,
  • Iker Irisarri,
  • Martin Kirchner,
  • Ariel Rodríguez,
  • Sebastian Kirchhof,
  • Jason L. Brown,
  • Amy MacLeod,
  • Alexander P. Turner,
  • Faraham Ahmadzadeh,
  • Gonzalo Albaladejo,
  • Jelka Crnobrnja-Isailovic,
  • Ignacio De la Riva,
  • Adnane Fawzi,
  • Pedro Galán,
  • Bayram Göçmen,
  • D. James Harris,
  • Octavio Jiménez-Robles,
  • Ulrich Joger,
  • Olga Jovanović Glavaš,
  • Mert Karış,
  • Giannina Koziel,
  • Sven Künzel,
  • Mariana Lyra,
  • Donald Miles,
  • Manuel Nogales,
  • Mehmet Anıl Oğuz,
  • Panayiotis Pafilis,
  • Loïs Rancilhac,
  • Noemí Rodríguez,
  • Benza Rodríguez Concepción,
  • Eugenia Sanchez,
  • Daniele Salvi,
  • Tahar Slimani,
  • Abderrahim S’khifa,
  • Ali Turk Qashqaei,
  • Anamarija Žagar,
  • Alan Lemmon,
  • Emily Moriarty Lemmon,
  • Miguel Angel Carretero,
  • Salvador Carranza,
  • Hervé Philippe,
  • Barry Sinervo,
  • Johannes Müller,
  • Miguel Vences,
  • Katharina C. Wollenberg Valero

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11943-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Predicted responses to climate change may be informed by evolutionary history. Here, the authors reconstruct the phylogeny of lacertid lizards and investigate how the evolution of this clade has varied with paleoclimates and how closely adapted extant species are to modern climates.