Socotra Island the forgotten fragment of Gondwana: Unmasking chameleon lizard history with complete mitochondrial genomic data

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1015-1018

  Robert Macey, J ^a,b   Kuehl, Jennifer V ^c   Larson, Allan ^d   Robinson, Michael D ^e   Ugurtas, Ismail H ^f   Ananjeva, Natalia B ^g   Rahman, Hafizur ^h   Javed, Hamid Iqbal ⁱ   Osman, Ridwan Mohamed ^j   Doumma, Ali ^k   Papenfuss, Theodore J ^b  

^a Merritt College   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^f ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^g ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^h Pakistan ARC   (Pakistan)

ⁱ Zoological Survey Department   (Pakistan)

^j Amoud University   (Somalia)

^k UNIVERSITÉ ABDOU MOUMOUNI   (Niger)

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Author keywords

Biogeography; Chamaeleonidae; Gondwana; Phylogeny; Reptilia

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

AFRICA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; INDIA; LIZARD; MIDDLE EAST; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; GEOGRAPHY; INDIA; LIZARDS; MIDDLE EAST; MITOCHONDRIA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, TRANSFER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CHAMAELEONIDAE; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 56749163385     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.08.024     Document Type: Article

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