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Species diversity, evolution, phylogenetics and taxonomy

GENERAL PAPERS

Synopsis of recent developments in venomous snake systematics. (1997) WÜSTER W, GOLAY P, WARRELL DA. Toxicon 35(3):319-340. © Elsevier Science Ltd.

Synopsis of recent developments in venomous snake systematics, No.2. (1998) WÜSTER W, GOLAY P, WARRELL DA. Toxicon 36(2):299-307. © Elsevier Science Ltd.

Synopsis of recent developments in venomous snake systematics, No.3. (1999) WÜSTER W, GOLAY P, WARRELL DA. Toxicon. 37:1123-1129. © Elsevier Science Ltd.

Natural history of reptilian development: Constraints on the evolution of viviparity. (2000) ANDREWS RM, MATHIES T. Bioscience 50(3):227-238 © American Institute of Biological Sciences.

Developmental basis of limblessness and axial patterning in snakes (1999) COHN MJ, TICKLE C. Nature 399:474-479. (c) McMillan Magazines Ltd

Taxonomic chauvinism. (2002) BONNET X, SHINE R, LOURDAIS O. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 17(1):1-3. (c) Elsevier Science Ltd.

The role of phylogenetics in evolutionary biology. (2001) PIANKA ER. In: Herpetologica Candiana (Eds: Lymberakis P, Valakos E, Pafilis P, Mylonas M). pp1-20. (c) Natural History Museum of Crete.

Snake relationships revealed by slow-evolving proteins: a preliminary survey. (1996) DOWLING HG, HASS CA, HEDGES SB, HIGHTON R. Journal of Zoology. 240:1-28.

Higher-level relationships of snakes inferred from four nuclear and mitochondrial genes. (2002) VIDAL N, HEDGES SB. C.R.Biologies 325:977–985 © 2002 Académie des Sciences/Éditions scientifiques et médicales.

Snake phylogeny: evidence from nuclear and mitochondrial genes. (2002) SLOWINSKI JB, LAWSON R. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 24:194-202. (c) Elsevier Science Ltd.

New directions in biogeography? (1994) HAYDON DT, CROTHER BI, PIANKA ER. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 9:403-406.

Gene rearrangements in snake mitochondrial genomes: Highly concerted evolution of control-region-like sequences duplicated and inserted into a tRNA gene cluster. (1996) KUMAZAWA Y, OTA H, NISHIDA M, OZAWA T. Molecular Biology and Evolution 13(9):1242-1254. © The Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution.

Evolutionary Relationships among the True Vipers (Reptilia: Viperidae) Inferred from Mitochondrial DNA Sequences. (2001) LENK P, KALYABINA S, WINK M, JOGER U. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 19(1):94–104 © Academic Press.

The evolution of oviparity with egg guarding and viviparity in lizards and snakes: A phylogenetic analysis. (1996) DE FRAIPONT M, CLOBERT J, BARBAULT R. Evolution. 50(1):391-400 © Society for the Study of Evolution.

Inferring Species Trees from Gene Trees: A Phylogenetic Analysis of the Elapidae (Serpentes) Based on the Amino Acid Sequences of Venom Proteins (1997) SLOWINSKI JB, KNIGHT A, ROONEY AP. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution Vol. 8(3) pp349–62 © Academic Press

Molecular phylogeny of elapid snakes and a consideration of their biogeographic history (1998) KEOGH JS. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Vol. 63(2), pp.177-203. © The Linnean Society of London.

The evolution of venom-delivery systems in snakes. (2003) JACKSON K. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 137:337–354. © The Linnean Society of London

Gene rearrangements in snake mitochondrial genomes: highly concerted evolution of control-region-like sequences duplicated and inserted into a tRNA gene cluster (1996) KUMAZAWA Y, OTA H, NISHIDA M, OZAWA T. Mol. Biol. Evol. 13(9):1242-1254. © The Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution.

Higher-level snake phylogeny inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences of 12s rRNA and 16s rRNA genes. (1995) HEISE PJ, MAXSON LR, DOWLING HG, HEDGES SB. Mol. Biol. Evol. 12(2):259-265. © The University of Chicago.

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