King or royal family? Testing for species boundaries in the King Cobra, Ophiophagus hanah (Cantor, 1836), using morphology and multilocus DNA analyses

• Main Authors: P. Gowri, Shankar, Priyanka, Swamy, Rhiannon C., Williams, S.R., Ganesh, Matt, Moss, Jacob, Hoglund, Indraneil, Das, Gunanidhi, Sahoo, S.P., Vijayakumar, Kartik, Shanker, Wolfgang, Wüster, Sushil K., Dutta
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsivier 2021
• Subjects: QL Zoology
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/36292/1/cobra1.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/36292/; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1055790321002335#!; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107300

In widespread species, the diverse ecological conditions in which the populations occur, and the presence of many potential geographical barriers through their range are expected to have created ample opportunities for the evolution of distinct, often cryptic lineages. In this work, we tested for...