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ArticleBiology letters2025

Night lizards survived the Cretaceous-Palaeogene mass extinction near the asteroid impact.

Chase D Brownstein, Saúl F Domínguez-Guerrero, José D L Tufiño, Martha M Muñoz, Thomas J Near

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Article in Biology letters, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Chase D BrownsteinDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
Saúl F Domínguez-GuerreroDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
José D L TufiñoCiudad Universitaria, Coyoacán, Mexico.
Martha M MuñozDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8297-2396
Thomas J NearDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7398-6670

Funding

National Science Foundationthe Yale Peabody Museum, Yale UniversityYale Training Program in Genetics
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Discovering traits that facilitate survival through mass extinctions is of great interest to scholars of macroevolution. Here, we show that the common ancestry of xantusiid night lizards, a species-poor lineage with conserved anatomy, precedes the Cretaceous-Palaeogene boundary. We reconstruct the geographic distribution of the stem lineages of three living genera,

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Biological EvolutionExtinction, BiologicalLizardsAnimalsClutch SizeFossilsGulf of AmericaPhylogenyasteroidCretaceous–Palaeogeneextinctionlife historylizardsphylogeneticsphysiology

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PMID40557454
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