Geologically dated sea barriers calibrate a protein clock for Aegean water frogs

Evolution

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1676-1687

  Beerli, Peter ^a,b   Hotz, Hansjürg ^a   Uzzell, Thomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Aegean region; frogs; geology; molecular clock; phylogeny; protein electrophoresis; Rana esculenta group; rate of evolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029821648     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1996.tb03939.x     Document Type: Article

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