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Squamates include all lizards and snakes found throughout the globe, including around 9,500 species on every continent except Antarctica, and found in most oceans,» said Dr. Pyron.
Not exact matches
Even though the
squamate reptiles
include more than 10,000 species — almost double the number of mammal species — a single genome was not enough to understand the variability within this group,» said the first author of the report, Marc Tollis, a post-doctoral fellow at ASU.
Organisms of interest
include fossil and living
squamates (snakes and lizards) as well as of extinct marine reptiles such as ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs.