Preliminary insights into the phylogeography of the yellow-bellied sea snake, Pelamis platurus

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 321-330

  Sheehy III, Coleman M ^a   Solórzano, Alejandro ^b   Pfaller, Joseph B ^c   Lillywhite, Harvey B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; CELL NUCLEUS; CLASSIFICATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA SEQUENCE; ELAPIDAE; GENE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; MITOCHONDRION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION GROWTH; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELAPIDAE; GENE FLOW; GENES, RAG-1; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; MITOCHONDRIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION GROWTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84867302713     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/ics088     Document Type: Conference Paper

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