What are the closest relatives of the hot-spring snakes (Colubridae, Thermophis), the relict species endemic to the Tibetan Plateau?

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 438-446

  Huang, Song ^a,b,c   Liu, Shao ying ^b,d   Guo, Peng ^e   Zhang, Ya ping ^b   Zhao, Er mi ^f,g  

^a HUANGSHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^c TIBET UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Sichuan Academy of Forestry   (China)

^e YIBIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g CHENGDU INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Hengduan Mountains; Maximum likelihood; Thermophis; Tibetan Plateau; Xenodontinae

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CELL NUCLEUS; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SNAKE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CELL NUCLEUS; CHINA; COLUBRIDAE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

COLUBRIDAE; HENOPHIDIA; SERPENTES; XENODONTINAE;

EID: 67349141791     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.02.013     Document Type: Article

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