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Intraspecific phylogeography of Lacerta vivipara and the evolution of viviparity.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Mar 2001
Surget-Groba Y, Heulin B, Guillaume C P, Thorpe R S, Kupriyanova L, Vogrin N, Maslak R, Mazzotti S, Venczel M, Ghira I, Odierna G, Leontyeva O, Monney J C, Smith N
Abstract excerpt
The lacertid lizard Lacerta vivipara is one of the few squamate species with two reproductive modes. We present the intraspecific phylogeny obtained from neighbor-joining and maximum-parsimony analyses of the mtDNA cytochrome b sequences for 15 individuals from Slovenian oviparous populations, 34 individuals from western oviparous populations of southern France and northern Spain, 92 specimens from European and...
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