2004
Relict snakes of North America and their relationships within Caenophidia, using likelihood-based Bayesian methods on mitochondrial sequences
Pinou T, Vicario S, Marschner M, Caccone A. Relict snakes of North America and their relationships within Caenophidia, using likelihood-based Bayesian methods on mitochondrial sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics And Evolution 2004, 32: 563-574. PMID: 15223038, DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2004.02.005.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNorth American snakesPhylogenetic relationshipsAmerican snakesRibosomal gene sequencesLikelihood-based Bayesian methodsMitochondrial sequencesSnake cladesGene sequencesParallel evolutionHemipenial morphologySnake speciesPutative examplesSnakesNorth AmericaBayesian analysisSequenceCladeDipsadidsDipsadidaeCaenophidiaNatricidaeSpeciesRelictBayesian methods
2003
Xantusiid “night” lizards: a puzzling phylogenetic problem revisited using likelihood-based Bayesian methods on mtDNA sequences
Vicario S, Caccone A, Gauthier J. Xantusiid “night” lizards: a puzzling phylogenetic problem revisited using likelihood-based Bayesian methods on mtDNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics And Evolution 2003, 26: 243-261. PMID: 12565035, DOI: 10.1016/s1055-7903(02)00313-5.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsDivergence time estimatesXantusia riversianaCytochrome b geneMaximum parsimony analysisCalifornia Channel IslandsLikelihood-based Bayesian methodsIsland endemicsMitochondrial genesLizard evolutionAncestral stateScleroglossan lizardsRibosomal genesMtDNA sequencesPhylogenetic problemsCrown cladeAdditional cladesPhylogenetic analysisNeighbor-JoiningParsimony analysisB geneBoundary bolide impactRock crevicesCladeMaximum likelihoodXantusia