%0 Journal Article
%T Genetic relationships among species of the genus Bothrops based on RAPD markers
%A Grazziotin
%A Felipe
%A Echeverrigaray
%A Sergio
%J Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology
%D 2005
%I Tecpar
%R 10.1590/S1516-89132005000300005
%X the genetic relationships among 11 species of bothrops found in brazil were determined using random amplified fragment (rapd) information. a total of 239 amplified bands were scored using 20 aleatory primers. most of the bands (88.7%) were polymorphic. phylogenetic analysis of the data determined three similarity groups within bothrops: group i- b. alternatus, b. neuwiedi, b. cotiara, and b. jararacusu; group ii- b. insularis, b. jararaca, and b. erythromelas; and group iii- b. moojeni, b. leucurus, and b. atrox. these groups coincided with those obtained by other methods, indicating that rapd's could be a useful tool for the evaluation of genetic relationships at the interspecific level.
%K bothrops
%K rapd
%K molecular markers
%K genetic relationship.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1516-89132005000300005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en