Understanding the factors that cause variation in offspring size is fundamental to resolving
important theoretical and conceptual issues in studies of life-history evolution. Models of …

Kluge, AG 1991. Bozne snake phylogeny and research cycles. Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool., Univ.
Michigan, 178: l-58, 14 figs. A cladistic analysis of 79 morphological characters delimits the …

2. Materials and methods All sequences used for this study are listed in Table 1. Sequence
entry and alignment (43 taxa) were performed manually with the MUST2000 software …

Relationships between the major lineages of snakes are assessed based on a phylogenetic
analysis of the most extensive phenotypic data set to date (212 osteological, 48 soft …

Snakes comprise nearly 4,000 extant species found on all major continents except
Antarctica. Morphologically and ecologically diverse, they include burrowing, arboreal, and …

The phylogeny of living and fossil snakes is assessed using likelihood and parsimony
approaches and a dataset combining 263 morphological characters with mitochondrial …

512 Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Snakes from ecological and ultimate
(evolutionary) perspectives, but also from the simply mechanistic standpoint of the dynamics …

The first clear fossil indications of modern clades of snakes are in the Palaeogene. Many
major groups, including 'scolecophidians'(blindsnakes), probably originated earlier, and …