Phylogenetic systematics of Southeast Asian flying lizards (Iguania: Agamidae: Draco) as inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequence data
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عنوان ژورنال: Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0024-4066
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2001.tb01312.x