Phylogenetic Relationships of Terrestrial Australo-Papuan Elapid Snakes (Subfamily Hydrophiinae) Based on Cytochromeband 16S rRNA Sequences

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 67-81

  Keogh, J Scott ^a,b   Shine, Richard ^a   Donnellan, Steve ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; Asia; Australia; biogeography; cytochromeb; elapid; Mitochondrial DNA; New Guinea; Pacific; reptile; sea snake; snake

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOGENE; SNAKE;

ANIMALS; CYTOCHROME B GROUP; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ELAPIDAE; EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOGENES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0032135477     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpev.1997.0471     Document Type: Article

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