Island evolution and systematic revision of comoran snakes: Why and when subspecies still make sense

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Hawlitschek, Oliver ^a   Nagy, Zoltán T ^b   Glaw, Frank ^a  

^a ZOOLOGISCHE STAATSSAMMLUNG MÜNCHEN   (Germany)

^b ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETIC TRAIT; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); LIOPHIDIUM MAYOTTENSIS; LYCODRYAS; MALE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR; SCALE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL SELECTION; SNAKE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SUBSPECIES; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; HAPLOTYPES; ISLANDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SNAKES;

EID: 84865288609     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042970     Document Type: Article

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