Christopher M. R. Kelly

Author

Rhodes University ORCID

Also Known As

Christopher M R Kelly, Christopher M. R. Kelly, Christopher M.R. Kelly

Publications

491

Citations

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Concepts

All Affiliations

Rhodes University Bayworld Centre for Research and Education South African National Biodiversity Institute

About

Christopher M. R. Kelly is an author at Rhodes University specializing in evolutionary biology, phylogenetics, and natural sciences.

Top Concepts

#	Concept	H-Index	Publications	Citations
1	Natural Sciences	6	6	379
2	Biology	6	6	379
3	Medicine	3	3	257
4	Engineering	1	1	31
5	Molecular Genetics	1	1	103

Christopher M. R. Kelly

Publications

480

Citations

H-Index

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	Year	Citations
Phylogeny, biogeography and classification of the snake superfamily Elapoidea: a rapid radiation in the late Eocene Christopher M. R. Kelly, Nigel P. Barker, Martin H. Villet, Cladistics GeneticsSynapsidaPhylogenetic AnalysisPhylogeneticsMolecular Ecology	2009	141
Phylogenetics of Advanced Snakes (Caenophidia) Based on Four Mitochondrial Genes Christopher M. R. Kelly, Nigel P. Barker, Martin H. Villet Systematic Biology BiologyMorphological EvidencePhylogeneticsMolecular EcologyBiogeography	2003	103
Best practices: in the 21st Century, taxonomic decisions in herpetology are acceptable only when supported by a body of evidence and published via peer-review Hinrich Kaiser, Brian I. Crother, Christopher M. R. Kelly, Herpetological review	2013	101
The snake family Psammophiidae (Reptilia: Serpentes): Phylogenetics and species delimitation in the African sand snakes (Psammophis Boie, 1825) and allied genera Christopher M. R. Kelly, Nigel P. Barker, Martin H. Villet, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution BiologySnake Family PsammophiidaeAfrican Sand SnakesMorphological EvidencePhylogenetics	2008	53
Molecular systematics of the African snake family Lamprophiidae Fitzinger, 1843 (Serpentes: Elapoidea), with particular focus on the genera Lamprophis Fitzinger 1843 and Mehelya Csiki 1903 Christopher M. R. Kelly, William R. Branch, Donald G. Broadley, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution BiologyMorphological EvidencePhylogeneticsMolecular EcologyMolecular Systematics	2010	38
Ancient habitat shifts and organismal diversification are decoupled in the African viper genus <i>Bitis</i> (Serpentes: Viperidae) Axel Barlow, Wolfgang Wüster, Christopher M. R. Kelly, Journal of Biogeography Animal TaxonomyEngineeringZoological TaxonomyAncient Habitat ShiftsSouthwest Africa	2019	31
Biomes, geology and past climate drive speciation of laminate-toothed rats on South African mountains (Murinae: Otomys) Peter J. Taylor, Teresa Kearney, Desiré L. Dalton, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society GeneticsCytochrome B GeneSouth African MountainsRodent EcologyComparative Anatomy	2019	13

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