New paper: Lizards break Dollo's Law?

Our paper on the evolution of oviparity and viviparity, as inferred from phylogenomics, is now fully available in the journal Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution at  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2018.05.029

Common lizards break Dollo’s law of irreversibility: genome-wide phylogenomics support a single origin of viviparity and re-evolution of oviparity



Well done to Hans, who led this work as part of his PhD 'Trees through time', a Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Interdisciplinary grant from the University of Glasgow and into the NERC grant.



This research was earlier covered by New Scientist here when the ms was a preprint.


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