Large-scale phylogeny of chameleons suggests African origins and Eocene diversification

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1759, 2013, Pages

  Tolley, Krystal A ^a,d   Townsend, Ted M ^b   Vences, Miguel ^c  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^d STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Chamaeleonidae; Colonization; Dispersal; Gondwana; Reptiles; Vicariance

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BIOGEOGRAPHY; COLONIZATION; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; DISPERSAL; EOCENE; GENETIC MARKER; GONDWANA; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; OCEANIC CURRENT; OLIGOCENE; PALEOCENE; PHYLOGENY; RECONSTRUCTION; REPTILE; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); VICARIANCE;

AFRICA; MADAGASCAR;

EID: 84878242762     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.0184     Document Type: Article

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