Dispersal and vicariance: The complex evolutionary history of boid snakes

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 347-358

  Noonan, Brice P ^a,b   Chippindale, Paul T ^b  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Boidae; Gondwana; Vicariance

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SNAKE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TIME;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BOIDAE; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; GENETIC SPECIATION; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

BOIDAE; BOINAE; ERYCINAE; LOXOCEMIDAE; PYTHONINAE; SERPENTES; XENOPELTIDAE;

EID: 33745861739     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2006.03.010     Document Type: Article

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