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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Hauptverfasser:	Frank Portillo, Edward L Stanley, William R Branch, Werner Conradie, Mark-Oliver Rödel, Johannes Penner, Michael F Barej, Chifundera Kusamba, Wandege M Muninga, Mwenebatu M Aristote, Aaron M Bauer, Jean-François Trape, Zoltán T Nagy, Piero Carlino, Olivier S G Pauwels, Michele Menegon, Ivan Ineich, Marius Burger, Ange-Ghislain Zassi-Boulou, Tomáš Mazuch, Kate Jackson, Daniel F Hughes, Mathias Behangana, Eli Greenbaum
Format:	Artigo
Sprache:	Inglês
Veröffentlicht:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Schriftenreihe:	PLoS ONE
Online-Zugang:	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214889
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