Mitochondrial DNA-based phylogeography of North American rubber boas, Charina bottae (serpentes: Boidae)

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 227-237

  Rodríguez Robles, Javier A ^a   Stewart, Glenn R ^b   Papenfuss, Theodore J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Boidae; Charina; Mitochondrial DNA; Phylogenetics; Snakes; Subspecies

Indexed keywords

ALLOENZYME; ALLOPATRY; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC DIVERGENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NORTH AMERICA; PALEOECOLOGY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES;

BOA; BOA (GENUS); BOIDAE; CHARINA; CHARINA BOTTAE; CHARINA UMBRATICA; SERPENTES;

EID: 0034771447     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpev.2000.0886     Document Type: Article

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