Snakes across the Strait: Trans-Torresian phylogeographic relationships in three genera of Australasian snakes (Serpentes: Elapidae: Acanthophis, Oxyuranus, and Pseudechis)

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-14

  Wüster, Wolfgang ^a   Dumbrell, Alex J ^a,b   Hay, Chris ^c   Pook, Catharine E ^a   Williams, David J ^d   Fry, Bryan Grieg ^c  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acanthophis; Arafura Shelf; Australia; Mitochondrial DNA; New Guinea; Oxyuranus; Phylogeography; Pseudechis

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; MITOCHONDRION; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PHYLOGENY; SNAKE;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELAPIDAE; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; MITOCHONDRIA; NEW GUINEA; PHYLOGENY;

ACANTHOPHIS; ACANTHOPHIS ANTARCTICUS; CHOERODON; ELAPIDAE; OXYURANUS; OXYURANUS SCUTELLATUS; PSEUDECHIS; SERPENTES;

EID: 9944254364     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2004.08.018     Document Type: Article

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