Molecular phylogeny of the Australian venomous snake genus Hoplocephalus (Serpentes, Elapidae) and conservation genetics of the threatened H. stephensii

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 57-65

  Keogh, Scott J ^a   Scott, Ian A W ^a   Fitzgerald, Mark ^b   Shine, Richard ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

McPherson Range; ND4; Phylogeography

Indexed keywords

DNA; FORESTRY; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; RNA;

MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY;

CONSERVATION;

CONSERVATION GENETICS; GENETIC VARIATION; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SNAKE;

CONSERVATION; FORESTRY; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; NUCLEIC ACIDS;

AUSTRALIA;

AMPHIBIA; ELAPIDAE; HOPLOCEPHALUS; HOPLOCEPHALUS BUNGAROIDES; HOPLOCEPHALUS STEPHENSII; REPTILIA; SERPENTES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0038730803     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021823423944     Document Type: Article

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