Out of Asia: Natricine snakes support the Cenozoic Beringian Dispersal Hypothesis

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 825-833

  Guo, Peng ^a,b   Liu, Qin ^a   Xu, Yan ^a,c   Jiang, Ke ^d   Hou, Mian ^e   Ding, Li ^b   Alexander Pyron, R ^f   Burbrink, Frank T ^g,h  

^a YIBIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHENGDU INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (China)

^c CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^e SICHUAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^h CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphiesma; Beringia; Biogeography; Colubridea; Intercontinental dispersal; Phylogenetics; Trachischium

Indexed keywords

REPTILIAN PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASIA; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COLUBRIDAE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCOGENE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ASIA; BAYES THEOREM; COLUBRIDAE; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENES, MOS; GENETIC SPECIATION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; REPTILIAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

AMPHIESMA; MONTICOLA; NATRICINAE; SERPENTES; XENOCHROPHIS;

EID: 84862816101     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.02.021     Document Type: Article

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