Parallel gigantism and complex colonization patterns in the Cape Verde scincid lizards Mabuya and Macroscincus (Reptilia: Scincidae) revealed by mitochondrial DNA sequences

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 268, Issue 1476, 2001, Pages 1595-1603

  Carranza, S ^a   Arnold, E N ^a   Mateo, J A ^a   Lopez Jurado L F ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Colonization; Conservation; Mitochondrial DNA; Phylogeny; Radiation

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL ENZYME; RIBOSOME RNA;

BODY SIZE; COLONIZATION; DNA; LIZARD;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BODY SIZE; CAPE VERDE; CLIMATE; DNA SEQUENCE; LIZARD; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPTILE;

CAPE VERDE;

MABUYA; MABUYA DELALANDII; MABUYA FOGOENSIS; MABUYA FOGOENSIS ANTAOENSIS; MABUYA FOGOENSIS NICOLAUENSIS; MABUYA SPINALIS; MABUYA STANGERI; MABUYA VAILLANTI; MACROSCINCUS; MACROSCINCUS COCTEI; REPTILIA; SCINCIDAE; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0035822609     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1699     Document Type: Article

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