The phylogeny and classification of caenophidian snakes inferred from seven nuclear protein-coding genes

Comptes Rendus - Biologies

Volumn 330, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 182-187

  Vidal, Nicolas ^a,b   Delmas, Anne Sophie ^c   David, Patrick ^b   Cruaud, Corinne ^d   Couloux, Arnaud ^d   Hedges, S Blair ^a  

^a NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c Genoscope ^*  (France)

^d CENTRE NATIONAL DE SÉQUENÇAGE   (France)

Author keywords

AMEL; C mos; Colubroidea; Grayiinae; HOXA13; JUN; R35; RAG1; RAG2; Serpentes; Systematics

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR PROTEIN;

CLASSIFICATION; DNA; PHYLOGENY; SNAKE; TAXONOMY; TOPOLOGY;

ANIMAL GENETICS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARAPHYLY; PHYLOGENY; SNAKE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TAXONOMY;

ASIA; EURASIA;

ACROCHORDIDAE; ATRACTASPIDIDAE; COLUBRIDAE; COLUBROIDEA; ELAPIDAE; SERPENTES; VIPERIDAE;

EID: 33846900917     PISSN: 16310691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2006.10.001     Document Type: Article

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