Evolutionary basis of parallelism in North American scincid lizards

Evolution and Development

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 477-490

  Richmond, Jonathan Q ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA;

LIZARD; MORPHOLOGY; ONTOGENY; PARALLEL EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY SIZE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; LIZARD; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY SIZE; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION; LIZARDS; MODELS, GENETIC; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

NORTH AMERICA;

SCINCIDAE; SQUAMATA;

EID: 33750526838     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2006.00121.x     Document Type: Article

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