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

Comptes Rendus - Biologies

Volumn 325, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 977-985

  Vidal, Nicolas ^a   Blair Hedges, S ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

12S rRNA; 16S rRNA; C mos; Cytochrome b; Macrostomatan; Phylogeny; Serpetes; Snakes

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; RNA 16S;

SNAKE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENUS; HOMOPLASY; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASTICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SNAKE;

ALETHINOPHIDIA; ANILIIDAE; ANILIUS; COLUBRIDAE; HENOPHIDIA; SERPENTES; TRACHYBOA; TROPIDOPHIIDAE; TROPIDOPHIS;

EID: 0036760668     PISSN: 16310691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1631-0691(02)01510-X     Document Type: Article

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