Slow worm, Anguis fragilis (Reptilia: Anguidae) as a species complex: Genetic structure reveals deep divergences

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 460-472

  Gvoždík, Václav ^a,b   Jandzik, David ^c   Lymberakis, Petros ^d   Jablonski, Daniel ^c   Moravec, Jiří ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Czech Republic)

^c Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Anguis; NADH dehydrogenase subunit 2 (ND2); Oocyte maturation factor (C mos); Phylogeny; Phylogeography; Prolactin receptor (PRLR); Systematics; Taxonomy; tRNA

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL NUCLEUS; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EUROPE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; LIZARD; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EUROPE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GEOGRAPHY; LIZARDS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANGUIDAE; ANGUIS; ANGUIS FRAGILIS; ANNIELLIDAE; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 77950029430     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.01.007     Document Type: Article

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