The researchers checked out information and DNA remoted and ethanol preserved tissue samples from 66 particular person snakes from 65 species, 52 genera and 22 households
A brand new examine by researchers from the College of Kansas, College of Helsinki and the American Museum of Pure Historical past have challenged the notion that cobras, coral snakes and different snakes of the superfamily Elapoidea originated in Africa, and as a substitute assert that these venomous snakes originated in Asia.
Whereas earlier research have claimed that these snakes originated in Africa, the researchers new examine, “Novel phylogenomic inference and ‘Out of Asia’ biogeography of cobras, coral snakes and their allies,” and printed within the Royal Society Open Science, declare that the snakes originated in Asia.
Micrurus Nigrocinctus. Ferdy Timmerman/Shutterstock
The researchers checked out information and DNA remoted and ethanol preserved tissue samples from 66 particular person snakes from 65 species, 52 genera and 22 households. They decided that the info collected helps their assertion that each Colubroidea and Elapoidea households of snakes originated in Asia beneath all of the biogeographic fashions the researchers utilized to make their conclusion.
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“Our outcomes supported a number of profitable colonizations by ancestral colubroid or elapoid lineages from Asia into Africa, the Americas, Australasia or Europe; from Africa into Asia, Europe, Australasia; from Europe into Asia; from land habitats in Australasia to marine habitats; and into Europe by ancestral colubroid lineages that have been inferred as being broadly distributed throughout Africa and Asia,” the researchers wrote of their paper.
The whole paper with all datasets, “Novel phylogenomic inference and ‘Out of Asia’ biogeography of cobras, coral snakes and their allies” may be learn on the Royal Society Open Science web site.
