Ridges and rivers: A test of competing hypotheses of Amazonian diversification using a dart-poison frog (Epipedobates femoralis)

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1431, 1999, Pages 1829-1835

  Lougheed, S C ^a   Gascon, C ^b,d   Jones, D A ^a   Bogart, J P ^c   Boag, P T ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^d Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon; Dart poison frogs; Phylogeography; Speciation; Vicariance hypotheses

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

FROG; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NATURAL BARRIER; PHYLOGENETICS; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; EVOLUTION; FROG; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTH AMERICA;

AMAZONIA; BRAZIL;

EPIPEDOBATES FEMORALIS;

EID: 0006892216     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0853     Document Type: Article

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