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  • A geometric morphometric analysis of the developing skulls of 44 squamate species shows that the diversity of skull shapes arises from changes in spatial arrangements followed by alterations in developmental timings, and that phenotypic integration with surrounding head tissues is greater in snakes than in lizards.

    • Joni Ollonen
    • Eraqi R. Khannoon
    • Nicolas Di-Poï
    Research
    Nature Ecology & Evolution
    Volume: 8, P: 536-551

  • The cerebellum is critical in sensory-motor control and is structurally diverse across vertebrates. Here, the authors investigate the evolutionary relationship between locomotory mode and cerebellum architecture across squamates by integrating study of gene expression, cell distribution, and 3D morphology.

    • Simone Macrì
    • Yoland Savriama
    • Nicolas Di-Poï
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 10, P: 1-16

  • The organization of Hox clusters in several different reptiles is investigated, showing that the Hox clusters in squamates — lizards and snakes — have unexpectedly accumulated transposable elements, reflecting extensive genomic rearrangements of coding and non coding regulatory regions. Comparative expression analyses between two species showing different axial skeletons, the corn snake and the whiptail lizard, revealed major alterations in Hox13 and Hox10 expression features during snake somitogenesis, in line with the expansion of both caudal and thoracic regions.

    • Nicolas Di-Poï
    • Juan I. Montoya-Burgos
    • Denis Duboule
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 464, P: 99-103

  • Tooth morphology has provided many insights into the tempo and mode of dietary evolution in mammals. A study of fossil and extant squamates shows that this group also repeatedly evolved increasingly complex teeth with more flexibility than mammals, and that higher tooth complexity and herbivory likely led to higher speciation rates.

    • Fabien Lafuma
    • Ian J. Corfe
    • Nicolas Di-Poï
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 12, P: 1-13

  • Three alternatives have been proposed for the ecological state of the ancestral snake: fossorial (burrowing), aquatic, or terrestrial. Here, the authors use an integrative geometric morphometric approach that suggests evolution from terrestrial to fossorial in the most recent common ancestor of extant snakes.

    • Filipe O. Da Silva
    • Anne-Claire Fabre
    • Nicolas Di-Poï
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 9, P: 1-11