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A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Ecology and Evolution, April 2013
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251 Wikipedia pages
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Title
A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes
Published in
BMC Ecology and Evolution, April 2013
DOI 10.1186/1471-2148-13-93
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Authors

R Alexander Pyron, Frank T Burbrink, John J Wiens

Abstract

The extant squamates (>9400 known species of lizards and snakes) are one of the most diverse and conspicuous radiations of terrestrial vertebrates, but no studies have attempted to reconstruct a phylogeny for the group with large-scale taxon sampling. Such an estimate is invaluable for comparative evolutionary studies, and to address their classification. Here, we present the first large-scale phylogenetic estimate for Squamata.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Brazil 32 2%
United States 19 1%
United Kingdom 9 <1%
Spain 7 <1%
France 4 <1%
Germany 4 <1%
Peru 3 <1%
Portugal 3 <1%
Italy 2 <1%
Other 18 1%
Unknown 1428 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 276 18%
Student > Master 249 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 243 16%
Researcher 189 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 92 6%
Other 247 16%
Unknown 233 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 847 55%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 146 10%
Environmental Science 129 8%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 37 2%
Unspecified 18 1%
Other 73 5%
Unknown 279 18%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 67. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 January 2024.
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#641,901
of 25,460,285 outputs
Outputs from BMC Ecology and Evolution
#127
of 3,714 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,400
of 204,390 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Ecology and Evolution
#4
of 57 outputs
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