Morphological correlates of incipient arboreality and ornithophagy in island pitvipers, and the phylogenetic position of Bothrops insularis

Journal of Zoology

Volumn 266, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-10

  Wüster, Wolfgang ^a   Duarte, Marcelo R ^b   Da Graça Salomão, Maria ^b  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Arboreality; Bothrops; Island species; Morphology; Parallel evolution; Snakes

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ECOMORPHOLOGY; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PARALLEL EVOLUTION; SNAKE;

AVES; BOTHROPS; BOTHROPS INSULARIS; BOTHROPS JARARACA; GLOYDIUS SHEDAOENSIS; PASSERIFORMES; SERPENTES;

EID: 20044385258     PISSN: 09528369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952836904006247     Document Type: Article

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