Phylogenetic relationships among bufonoid frogs (Anura: Neobatrachia) inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 533-547

  Ruvinsky, Ilya ^a,c   Maxson, Linda R ^b,c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANURA; BUFONIDAE; CENTROLENIDAE; DENDROBATIDAE; HELEOPHRYNIDAE; HEMIPHRACTINAE; HYLA; HYLINAE; HYLOIDEA; LEPTODACTYLIDAE; MYOBATRACHIDAE; NEOBATRACHIA; PELODRYADINAE; PHYLLOMEDUSINAE; RANOIDEA; SMILISCA; SOOGLOSSIDAE;

PRIMER DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 12S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FROGS AND TOADS; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTH AMERICA; TOAD;

ANIMALS; ANURA; BASE SEQUENCE; BUFONIDAE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0030161285     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpev.1996.0048     Document Type: Article

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