Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "homoplasy"

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    • The Braincase of Eocaecilia micropodia (Lissamphibia, Gymnophiona) and the Origin of Caecilians 

      Maddin, Hillary Catherine; Jenkins, Farish A., Jr.; Anderson, Jason S. (Public Library of Science, 2012-11-30)
      The scant fossil record of caecilians has obscured the origin and evolution of this lissamphibian group. Eocaecilia micropodia from the Lower Jurassic of North America remains the only stem-group caecilian with an almost ...

    • Convergent evolutionary reduction of atrial septation in lungless salamanders 

      Lewis, Zachary R.; Hanken, James (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016)
      Nearly two thirds of the approximately 700 species of living salamanders are lungless. These species respire entirely through the skin and buccopharyngeal mucosa. Lung loss dramatically impacts the configuration of the ...

    • How reticulated are species? 

      Mallet, James; Besansky, Nora; Hahn, Matthew W. (John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2015)
      Many groups of closely related species have reticulate phylogenies. Recent genomic analyses are showing this in many insects and vertebrates, as well as in microbes and plants. In microbes, lateral gene transfer is the ...