Phylogeography of the California mountain kingsnake, Lampropeltis zonata (Colubridae)

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1923-1934

  Rodríguez Robles, Javier A ^a   Denardo, Dale F ^a,c   Staub, Richard E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

California; Lampropeltis zonata; Phylogeography; Snakes; Subspecies

Indexed keywords

GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; RACE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CALIFORNIA; COLUBRIDAE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0033227441     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294X.1999.00793.x     Document Type: Article

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