Evidence for a Müllerian mimetic radiation in Asian pitvipers

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1590, 2006, Pages 1135-1141

  Sanders, K L ^a   Malhotra, A ^a   Thorpe, R S ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Green pitviper; Hypothesis testing; Mitochondrial DNA phylogeny; M llerian mimicry; Sex limited; Trimeresurus

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

CRYPSIS; DIVERGENCE; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; MIMICRY; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PARAPATRY; PHYLOGENY; SEXUAL SELECTION; SIGNALING; SNAKE; SYMPATRY;

ARTICLE; ASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; SNAKE; SOUTHEAST ASIA; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; COLOR; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

TRIMERESURUS; VERTEBRATA; VIPERINAE;

ANIMALS; COLOR; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; MALE; PHYLOGENY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIPERIDAE;

EID: 33746677028     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3418     Document Type: Article

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