Radiation, multiple dispersal and parallelism in the skinks, Chalcides and Sphenops (Squamata: Scincidae), with comments on Scincus and Scincopus and the age of the Sahara Desert

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1071-1094

  Carranza, S ^a   Arnold, E N ^b   Geniez, Ph ^c   Roca, J ^a   Mateo, J A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^d Centro de Recuperación Del Lagarto Gigante de la Gomera   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Chalcides; Ecomorph; Eumeces; Maghreb; Parallelism; Phylogeny; Sahara; Scincopus; Scincus; Sphenops

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; LIZARD; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY;

AFRICA, NORTHERN; ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GEOGRAPHY; LIZARDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CHALCIDES; CHALCIDES BEDRIAGAI; CHALCIDES CHALCIDES; CHALCIDES OCELLATUS; CHALCIDES POLYLEPIS; CHALCIDES SEXLINEATUS; CHALCIDES SIMONYI; CHALCIDES STRIATUS; CHALCIDES VIRIDANUS; EUMECES; EUMECES ALGERIENSIS; NOVOEUMECES SCHNEIDERI; SCINCIDAE; SCINCOPUS; SCINCUS; SPHENOPS; SQUAMATA;

EID: 40849137918     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2007.11.018     Document Type: Article

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