الوصف

Ecological and phylogentical study on a species of snakes inhabiting Sadi Arabia desert

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DOI

10.3897/herpetozoa.34.e74009

الملخص

This study presents the molecular phylogenetic relationships among Lytorhynchus diadema (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854) populations in Saudi Arabia relative to populations from Africa and Asia. This phylogenetic analysis was based on mitochondrial 16S and 12S rRNA partial gene fragments using Neighbor-joining, Maximum Parsimony, and Bayesian methods. The results strongly support the monophyly of Lytorhynchus based on two concatenated genes and the 12S rRNA gene separately. Also, a significant separation is observed between the Arabian samples from Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Oman, and the African populations from Egypt, Tunisia, and Morocco.

الكلمات الدالة

Colubridae, Lytorhynchus, mtDNA, phylogeny, Saudi Arabia