Mitochondrial light strand DNA replication is initiated at light strand replication origins (OLs), short stem-loop hairpins formed by the heavy strand DNA. OL-like secondary structures are also formed by heavy strand DNA ...

The New Zealand tuatara (Sphenodon) is the sole surviving rhynchocephalian of a once thriving group across Pangea during early Mesozoic times. Outside New Zealand, close relatives of the tuatara (sphenodontines) are known ...

Rhynchocephalian lepidosaurs, though once widespread worldwide, are represented today only by the tuatara (Sphenodon) of New Zealand. After their apparent early Cretaceous extinction in Laurasia, they survived in southern ...

Rhynchocephalians are a lepidosaur clade with a single living species. Here we report the first record of an eilenodontine sphenodontian from Turonian beds in South America. The new Turonian basal eilenodontine sphenodontian, ...

The cranial musculature of twelve (12) species of all genera of Teiidae was compared and analyzed for taxonomic significance. Using 70 myological cranial characters a cladistic analysis of the taxa mentioned was performed. ...

The cranial musculature of species of ten families of lizards (Gekkonidae, Teiidae, Gymnophthalmidae, Anguidae, Scincidae, Lacertidae, Tropiduridae, Liolaemidae, Leiosauridae, and Polychrotidae) was analyzed. Using 93 ...

Mitochondrial light strand DNA replication is initiated at light strand replication origins (OLs), short stem-loop hairpins formed by the heavy strand DNA. OL-like secondary structures are also formed by heavy strand ...