Molecular systematics of neotropical cat-eyed snakes: A test of the monophyly of Leptodeirini (Colubridae: Dipsadinae) with implications for character evolution and biogeography

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 483-500

  Mulcahy, Daniel G ^a,b  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryophis; Diet; Hemipenes; Hypsiglena; Imantodes; Leptodeira; Mitochondrial DNA; Phylogenetics; Pseudoleptodeira; Serpentes

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BIOGEOGRAPHY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; IMMUNOASSAY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MIOCENE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MORPHOLOGY; NEOTROPICAL REGION; PALEOCENE; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; PROTEIN; SNAKE; TAXONOMY;

ATRACTUS; COLUBRIDAE; CRYOPHIS; DIPSADINAE; DIPSAS; ERIDIPHAS; HYPSIGLENA; IMANTODES; INVERTEBRATA; LEPTODEIRA; OXYBELIS; PSEUDOLEPTODEIRA; SERPENTES; SIBON; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 35448968326     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2007.00855.x     Document Type: Article

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