Testing the phylogenetic affinities of Southeast Asia's rarest geckos: Flap-legged geckos (Luperosaurus), Flying geckos (Ptychozoon) and their relationship to the pan-Asian genus Gekko

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 915-921

  Brown, Rafe M ^a   Siler, Cameron D ^a   Das, Indraneil ^b   Min, Yong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SARAWAK   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Coastal forest species; Enigmatic taxa; Flap legged geckos; Forest canopy species; Forest geckos; Parachute geckos

Indexed keywords

REPTILIAN PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASIA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; LIZARD; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALS; ASIA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LIZARDS; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; REPTILIAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

GEKKO; GEKKONIDAE; LEPIDODACTYLUS; LUPEROSAURUS; PTYCHOZOON; RHACOPHORUS; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84862825157     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.02.019     Document Type: Article

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