Molecular phylogeny of the new world dipsadidae (serpentes: Colubroidea): A reappraisal

Cladistics

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 437-459

  Grazziotin, Felipe G ^a,b   Zaher, Hussam ^a   Murphy, Robert W ^c,d   Scrocchi, Gustavo ^e   Benavides, Marco A ^f   Zhang, Ya Ping ^d,g   Bonatto, Sandro L ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^c DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Canada)

^d KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^e FUNDACIÓN MIGUEL LILLO   (Argentina)

^f MUSEO ECUATORIANO DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Ecuador)

^g YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^h PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; HOMOLOGY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NEW GENUS; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; RECONSTRUCTION; SNAKE; TAXONOMY;

ANTILLOPHIS; CLELIA; CLELIA RUSTICA; COLUBROIDEA; DARLINGTONIA (SNAKE); ERYTHROLAMPRUS; HYPSIRHYNCHUS; PHILODRYAS; SERPENTES;

EID: 84866272827     PISSN: 07483007     EISSN: 10960031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2012.00393.x     Document Type: Article

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