Multiple colonization of Madagascar and Socotra by colubrid snakes: Evidence from nuclear and mitochondrial gene phylogenies

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1533, 2003, Pages 2613-2621

  Nagy, Zoltán Tamás ^a   Joger, Ulrich ^b   Wink, Michael ^a   Glaw, Frank ^c   Vences, Miguel ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Natural History Museum Braunschweig   (Germany)

^c Zoologische Staatssammlung   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Colonization; Madagascar; Molecular phylogeny; Pseudoxyrhophiinae; Serpentes: Colubridae; Socotra

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; RIBOSOME RNA;

BIOGEOGRAPHY; COLONIZATION; PHYLOGENY; SNAKE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COLUBER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DITYPOPHIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEMEROPHIS; MIMOPHIS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA GENE; SNAKE; TAXONOMY;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MADAGASCAR;

ANIMALIA; COLUBER; COLUBRIDAE; DITYPOPHIS; HEMEROPHIS; MIMOPHIS; PSAMMOPHIINAE; PSEUDOXYRHOPHIINAE; SERPENTES;

EID: 0347091984     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2547     Document Type: Article

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