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Locomotion and palaeoclimate explain the re-evolution of quadrupedal body form in
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- The Impact of Substrate Properties on the Kinematics of Locomotion in a Limb-Reduced Skink, Ablepharus kitaibelii (Squamata: Scincidae).Journal of experimental zoology. Part A, Ecological and integrative physiology · 2026Article
- Host habitat shapes the gut microbiomes of insular reptilian hosts in the Philippines.ISME communications · 2025Article
- Coordinating tiny limbs and long bodies: Geometric mechanics of lizard terrestrial swimming.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Evolution of diel activity patterns in skinks (Squamata: Scincidae), the world's second-largest family of terrestrial vertebrates.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2022Article
- Hidden limbs in the "limbless skink" Brachymeles lukbani: Developmental observations.Journal of anatomy · 2021Article
- Locomotion and palaeoclimate explain the re-evolution of quadrupedal body form inProceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
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Abstract
Evolutionary reversals, including re-evolution of lost structures, are commonly found in phylogenetic studies. However, we lack an understanding of how these reversals happen mechanistically. A snake-like body form has evolved many times in vertebrates, and occasionally a quadrupedal form has re-evolved, including in
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