Vicariant origin of Malagasy reptiles supports late cretaceous antarctic land bridge

American Naturalist

Volumn 168, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 730-741

  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

Boidae; Gondwana; Iguanidae; Madagascar; Podocnemidae; Vicariance

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CONTINENTAL DRIFT; CRETACEOUS; DIVERGENCE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GONDWANA; LAND BRIDGE; LIZARD; REPTILE; SNAKE; TURTLE; VICARIANCE;

ANIMAL; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGY; CELL NUCLEUS; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MADAGASCAR; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPTILE;

ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; CELL NUCLEUS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GEOGRAPHY; MADAGASCAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPTILES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MADAGASCAR;

BOIDAE; CHAMAELEONIDAE; FAGUS; IGUANIDAE; NOTHOFAGUS; REPTILIA; SERPENTES; SQUAMATA; TESTUDINES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33845252887     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/509052     Document Type: Article

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