A nesting of vipers: Phylogeny and historical biogeography of the Viperidae (Squamata: Serpentes)

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 445-459

  Wüster, Wolfgang ^a   Peppin, Lindsay ^a   Pook, Catharine E ^a   Walker, Daniel E ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Mitochondrial DNA; Molecular dating; Phylogeny; Viperidae

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 12S; VENOM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SNAKE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENES, RRNA; GENETIC SPECIATION; GEOGRAPHY; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VENOMS; VIPERIDAE;

AZEMIOPS; CAUSUS; CROTALINAE; SERPENTES; SQUAMATA; VIPERIDAE; VIPERINAE;

EID: 55049125206     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.08.019     Document Type: Article

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