Vipers

Genetic diversity in populations of the viper Bothrops moojeni Hoge, 1966 in Central Brazil using RAPD markers

N. C. L. Dutra, Telles, M. P. C., Dutra, D. L., and Júnior, N. J. Silva, Genetic diversity in populations of the viper Bothrops moojeni Hoge, 1966 in Central Brazil using RAPD markers, vol. 7, pp. 603-613, 2008.

Bothrops moojeni is an abundant venomous snake responsible for most of the snakebite cases in the Central region of Brazil and as a result of the anthropogenic habitat disturbance, such as the increase in extensive farming, the range of B. moojeni has been greatly fragmented. Here, we obtained genomic DNA from a total of 75 snakes belonging to four populations. Genetic variability evaluated for five RAPD primers was low (He = 0.20) and was not spatially structured. We found evidence of significant genetic divergence among B.

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