Humid forest refugia, speciation and secondary introgression between evolutionary lineages: Differentiation in a Near Eastern brown frog, Rana macrocnemis

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 141-156

  Tarkhnishvili, David ^a   Hille, Axel ^a   Böhme, Wolfgang ^a  

^a ZOOLOGISCHES FORSCHUNGSMUSEUM ALEXANDER KOENIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allozymes; Coloration pattern; Genealogical concordance; Geographic variation; Hybrid zones; Landscape dependent selection; Mitochondrial DNA

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012589815     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bijl.2001.0561     Document Type: Article

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