Genetic structure, phylogeny, and biogeography of Brazilian eyelid-less lizards of genera Calyptommatus and Nothobachia (Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae) as inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 622-630

  Siedchlag, Ana Carolina ^a   Benozzati, Maria Lúcia ^a   Passoni, José Carlos ^a   Rodrigues, Miguel Trefaut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

12S; 16S; Biogeography; Brazil; Calyptommatus; Cyt b; Divergence times; Gymnophthalmidae lizards; mtDNA phylogeny; Nothobachia; S o Francisco River sand dunes

Indexed keywords

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

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; LIZARD; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; RIVER;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; LIZARDS; PHYLOGENY; RIVERS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CALYPTOMMATUS; CALYPTOMMATUS LEIOLEPIS; CALYPTOMMATUS NICTERUS; CALYPTOMMATUS SINEBRACHIATUS; GYMNOPHTHALMIDAE; NOTHOBACHIA; NOTHOBACHIA ABLEPHARA; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77953137205     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.04.027     Document Type: Article

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