Higher-level relationships of caenophidian snakes inferred from four nuclear and mitochondrial genes

Comptes Rendus - Biologies

Volumn 325, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 987-995

  Vidal, Nicolas ^a   Blair Hedges, S ^b  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

12S rRNA; 16S rRNA; Advanced snakes; C mos; Caneophida; Colubroidea; ND4; Phylogeny; Venom apparatus

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; VENOM;

SNAKE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; GENETIC LINE; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SNAKE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

COLUBROIDEA; SERPENTES;

EID: 0036760535     PISSN: 16310691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1631-0691(02)01509-3     Document Type: Article

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