Monitors cross the Red Sea: The biogeographic history of Varanus yemenensis

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 561-565

  Portik, Daniel M ^a   Papenfuss, Theodore J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Biogeography; Middle East; Monitor lizards; Red Sea; Varanus

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; RAG 1 PROTEIN; RAG-1 PROTEIN; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE; REPTILIAN PROTEIN;

AFRICA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASIA; BAYES THEOREM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; INDIAN OCEAN; LIZARD; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; ASIA; BAYES THEOREM; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INDIAN OCEAN; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LIZARDS; MARKOV CHAINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NADH DEHYDROGENASE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; REPTILIAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

SQUAMATA; VARANUS; VARANUS ALBIGULARIS;

EID: 83655191908     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.09.024     Document Type: Article

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