A New Miocene-Divergent Lineage of Old World Racer Snake from India

A distinctive early Miocene-divergent lineage of Old world racer snakes is described as a new genus and species based on three specimens collected from the western Indian state of Gujarat. Wallaceophis gen. et. gujaratenesis sp. nov. is a members of a clade of old world racers. The monotypic genus r...

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Autores principales: Mirza, Zeeshan A., Vyas, Raju, Patel, Harshil, Maheta, Jaydeep, Sanap, Rajesh V.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4774991/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26934509
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0148380
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author Mirza, Zeeshan A.
Vyas, Raju
Patel, Harshil
Maheta, Jaydeep
Sanap, Rajesh V.
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description A distinctive early Miocene-divergent lineage of Old world racer snakes is described as a new genus and species based on three specimens collected from the western Indian state of Gujarat. Wallaceophis gen. et. gujaratenesis sp. nov. is a members of a clade of old world racers. The monotypic genus represents a distinct lineage among old world racers is recovered as a sister taxa to Lytorhynchus based on ~3047bp of combined nuclear (cmos) and mitochondrial molecular data (cytb, ND4, 12s, 16s). The snake is distinct morphologically in having a unique dorsal scale reduction formula not reported from any known colubrid snake genus. Uncorrected pairwise sequence divergence for nuclear gene cmos between Wallaceophis gen. et. gujaratenesis sp. nov. other members of the clade containing old world racers and whip snake is 21–36%.
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spelling pubmed-47749912016-03-10 A New Miocene-Divergent Lineage of Old World Racer Snake from India Mirza, Zeeshan A. Vyas, Raju Patel, Harshil Maheta, Jaydeep Sanap, Rajesh V. PLoS One Research Article A distinctive early Miocene-divergent lineage of Old world racer snakes is described as a new genus and species based on three specimens collected from the western Indian state of Gujarat. Wallaceophis gen. et. gujaratenesis sp. nov. is a members of a clade of old world racers. The monotypic genus represents a distinct lineage among old world racers is recovered as a sister taxa to Lytorhynchus based on ~3047bp of combined nuclear (cmos) and mitochondrial molecular data (cytb, ND4, 12s, 16s). The snake is distinct morphologically in having a unique dorsal scale reduction formula not reported from any known colubrid snake genus. Uncorrected pairwise sequence divergence for nuclear gene cmos between Wallaceophis gen. et. gujaratenesis sp. nov. other members of the clade containing old world racers and whip snake is 21–36%. Public Library of Science 2016-03-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4774991/ /pubmed/26934509 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0148380 Text en © 2016 Mirza et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Mirza, Zeeshan A.
Vyas, Raju
Patel, Harshil
Maheta, Jaydeep
Sanap, Rajesh V.
A New Miocene-Divergent Lineage of Old World Racer Snake from India
title A New Miocene-Divergent Lineage of Old World Racer Snake from India
title_full A New Miocene-Divergent Lineage of Old World Racer Snake from India
title_fullStr A New Miocene-Divergent Lineage of Old World Racer Snake from India
title_full_unstemmed A New Miocene-Divergent Lineage of Old World Racer Snake from India
title_short A New Miocene-Divergent Lineage of Old World Racer Snake from India
title_sort new miocene-divergent lineage of old world racer snake from india
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4774991/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26934509
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0148380
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