Fig. 3: Relative phenotypic and molecular evolutionary rates and disparity through time in lepidosaurs.
From: Megaevolutionary dynamics and the timing of evolutionary innovation in reptiles
Branch widths proportional to posterior probabilities for clades stemming from the respective branches. a phenotypic (blue) and molecular (red) rates among the major lepidosaur lineages from the Jurassic to the present time. Grey area represents 95% CI around LOESS regression line segmented by geological time bins. Triassic rates are not considered here due to low sample size and extremely large confidence intervals. b phenotypic disparity in early diapsids through time. Box plots represent distribution of 100 bootstraps at each time bin. Lower bound = 1st quartile (Q1); upper bound = 3rd quartile (Q3); notching = median; diamond = mean; minima = Q1-1.5xIQR; maxima = Q3 + 1.5xIQR; outliers = dots. Grey area represents 95% CI around LOESS regression line segmented by geological time bins (phenotypic = dark blue and molecular = dark red). n = 211 (a, b) for molecular and phenotypic evolutionary rates pooled from all unique bipartitions from the posterior trees. c phenotypic rates of evolution in reptiles plotted on the time-calibrated maximum compatible tree from Mr. Bayes. For full tree see Supplementary Figs. 5, 10.
