Shifting sands and shifty lizards: Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of African flat lizards (Platysaurus)

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 618-629

  Scott, Ian A W ^a   Keogh, J Scott ^a   Whiting, Martin J ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Kalahari Desert; ND4; Phylogeography; Reptile; Sub Saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

PLATYSAURUS; PLATYSAURUS BROADLEYI; PLATYSAURUS CAPENSIS; PLATYSAURUS IMPERATOR; PLATYSAURUS INTERMEDIUS; PLATYSAURUS LEBOMBOENSIS; PLATYSAURUS MACULATUS; PLATYSAURUS MINOR; PLATYSAURUS MITCHELLI; PLATYSAURUS MONOTROPIS; PLATYSAURUS ORIENTALIS; PLATYSAURUS TORQUATUS; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 1942485826     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2003.08.010     Document Type: Article

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