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Evolutionary history of burrowing asps (Lamprophiidae: Atractaspidinae) with emphasis on fang evolution and prey selection

Atractaspidines are poorly studied, fossorial snakes that are found throughout Africa and western Asia, including the Middle East. We employed concatenated gene-tree analyses and divergence dating approaches to investigate evolutionary relationships and biogeographic patterns of atractaspidines with...

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Autores principales: Portillo, Frank, Stanley, Edward L., Branch, William R., Conradie, Werner, Rödel, Mark-Oliver, Penner, Johannes, Barej, Michael F., Kusamba, Chifundera, Muninga, Wandege M., Aristote, Mwenebatu M., Bauer, Aaron M., Trape, Jean-François, Nagy, Zoltán T., Carlino, Piero, Pauwels, Olivier S. G., Menegon, Michele, Ineich, Ivan, Burger, Marius, Zassi-Boulou, Ange-Ghislain, Mazuch, Tomáš, Jackson, Kate, Hughes, Daniel F., Behangana, Mathias, Greenbaum, Eli
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6469773/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30995262
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214889