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Article Reference Ultraconserved elements-based phylogenomic systematics of the snake superfamily Elapoidea, with the description of a new Afro-Asian family
The highly diverse snake superfamily Elapoidea is considered to be a classic example of ancient, rapid radiation. Such radiations are challenging to fully resolve phylogenetically, with the highly diverse Elapoidea a case in point. Previous attempts at inferring a phylogeny of elapoids produced highly incongruent estimates of their evolutionary relationships, often with very low statistical support. We sought to resolve this situation by sequencing over 4,500 ultraconserved element loci from multiple representatives of every elapoid family/subfamily level taxon and inferring their phylogenetic relationships with multiple methods. Concatenation and multispecies coalescent based species trees yielded largely congruent and well-supported topologies. Hypotheses of a hard polytomy were not retained for any deep branches. Our phylogenies recovered Cyclocoridae and Elapidae as diverging early within Elapoidea. The Afro-Malagasy radiation of elapoid snakes, classified as multiple subfamilies of an inclusive Lamprophiidae by some earlier authors, was found to be monophyletic in all analyses. The genus Micrelaps was consistently recovered as sister to Lamprophiidae. We establish a new family, Micrelapidae fam. nov., for Micrelaps and assign Brachyophis to this family based on cranial osteological synapomorphy. We estimate that Elapoidea originated in the early Eocene and rapidly diversified into all the major lineages during this epoch. Ecological opportunities presented by the post-Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction event may have promoted the explosive radiation of elapoid snakes.
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2023
Article Reference Un atelier métallurgique laténien travaillant les alliages cuivreux et le fer à Berloz (Hesbaye liégeoise, Belgique) : étude archéométrique et mode de fabrication des creusets.
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2019
Inbook Reference Un autre regard sur l’art mobilier paléolithique belge au travers des nouvelles technologies
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2022
Article Reference Un bois silicifié de peuplier de la transition Paléocène-Eocène de Dormaal, Belgique
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications
Inproceedings Reference Uncovering the diversity and evolutionary histories of viruses from archived specimens from the Afrotropics
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2023 OA
Article Reference Understanding the tangled taxonomy of the genus Pseudohercostomus Stackelberg, 1931 (Insecta: Diptera: Dolichopodidae) with description of new species from Singapore and DR Congo
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2021
Inproceedings Reference Une imagerie à la portée de tous ? Application aux collections d’anthropologie et de préhistoire de l’Institut royal des sciences naturelles de Belgique (IRSNB)
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Article Reference Une nouvelle espèce de Geotrogus Guérin-Méneville pour la faune du Maroc et catalogue actualisé des epèces du genre (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Melolonthidae: Rhizotrogini)
Located in Library / RBINS collections by external author(s)
Article Reference Une nouvelle espèce du genre Teraticorhynchus de Bornéo et statut du genre Toxobrentus (Coleoptera Brentidae-
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Proceedings Reference Unexpected species richness in the African pike Hepsetus odoe (Bloch, 1794); (Characiformes: Hepsetidae)
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