Phylogenetic structure and species boundaries in the mountain pitviper Ovophis monticola (Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalinae) in Asia

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 444-457

  Malhotra, Anita ^a   Dawson, Karen ^a   Guo, Peng ^b,c   Thorpe, Roger S ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b YIBIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHENGDU INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Asia; Biogeography; Crotalinae; Molecular systematics; Morphometrics; Ovophis

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASIA; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOMETRICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SNAKE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ASIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIPERIDAE;

CROTALINAE; OVOPHIS; OVOPHIS MONTICOLA; SERPENTES; VIPERIDAE;

EID: 79955117348     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.02.010     Document Type: Article

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