Molecular systematics of the African snake family Lamprophiidae Fitzinger, 1843 (Serpentes: Elapoidea), with particular focus on the genera Lamprophis Fitzinger 1843 and Mehelya Csiki 1903

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 415-426

  Kelly, Christopher M R ^a   Branch, William R ^b   Broadley, Donald G ^c   Barker, Nigel P ^a   Villet, Martin H ^a  

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b Bayworld   (South Africa)

^c NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

Africa; Boaedon; Gonionotophis; Inyoka swazicus; Lamprophiidae; Lamprophis; Lycodonomorphus; Mehelya; Phylogenetics

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL NUCLEUS; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SNAKE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CELL NUCLEUS; COLUBRIDAE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

LAMPROPHIS; LAMPROPHIS FULIGINOSUS; LAMPROPHIS INORNATUS; LYCODONOMORPHUS; MEHELYA; NERODIA; SERPENTES;

EID: 79951922642     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.11.010     Document Type: Article

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