The phylogeny of squamate reptiles (lizards, snakes, and amphisbaenians) inferred from nine nuclear protein-coding genes

Comptes Rendus - Biologies

Volumn 328, Issue 10-11, 2005, Pages 1000-1008

  Vidal, Nicolas ^a,b   Hedges, S Blair ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Enolase; Amelogenin; Autarchoglossa; Biogeography; C mos; Classification; HOXA13; Iguania; JUN; Lacertilia; Lepidosauria; MAFB; R35; RAG1; RAG2; Sauria; Scleroglossa; Squamata; Systematics; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

AMELOGENIN; ENOLASE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTEIN C JUN; RAG1 PROTEIN; RAG2 PROTEIN;

DNA; PHYLOGENY; REPTILE;

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BASE PAIRING; CLADISTICS; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HYPOTHESIS; JURASSIC; LIZARD; MONOPHYLY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PREY; REPTILE; SNAKE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXON; TRIASSIC; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENES; LIZARDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; REPTILES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SNAKES;

AMPHISBAENIA; ANGUIMORPHA; AUTARCHOGLOSSA; CORDYLIDAE; DIBAMIDAE; GEKKONIDAE; IGUANIA; LACERTILIA; LEPIDOSAURIA; REPTILIA; SAURIA; SCINCIDAE; SCLEROGLOSSA; SERPENTES; SQUAMATA; VARANIDAE; VERTEBRATA; XANTUSIIDAE;

EID: 28044466648     PISSN: 16310691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2005.10.001     Document Type: Article

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