تاريخ النشر
12/01/2021 12:00:00 ص
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Adel A. Ibrahim, Ahmed Mohajja Alshammari, Ahmed Badry, Salem Busais, Eman El-Abd
Ecological and phylogentical study on a species of snakes inhabiting Sadi Arabia desert
10.3897/herpetozoa.34.e74009
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.
Colubridae, Lytorhynchus, mtDNA, phylogeny, Saudi Arabia