Relict snakes of North America and their relationships within Caenophidia, using likelihood-based Bayesian methods on mitochondrial sequences

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 563-574

  Pinou, Theodora ^a   Vicario, Saverio ^a   Marschner, Monique ^a   Caccone, Adalgisa ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caenophidia; Hemipenis; Mitochondrial genes; Snake phylogeny

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; SNAKE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; COLUBRIDAE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

CARPHOPHIS; CARPHOPHIS AMOENUS; CONTIA TENUIS; DIADOPHIS PUNCTATUS; FARANCIA ABACURA; FARANCIA ERYTROGRAMMA; HETERODON NASICUS; HETERODON PLATIRHINOS; HETERODON SIMUS; SERPENTES;

EID: 3042644455     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2004.02.005     Document Type: Article

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