Allozyme variation among East Asian populations of the Indian rice frog, Rana limnocharis (Amphibia: Anura)

Biochemical Systematics and Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 143-159

  Toda, Mamoru ^a,c   Nishida, Mutsumi ^b   Matsui, Masafumi ^c   Wu, Gan Fu ^d   Ota, Hidetoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b FUKUI PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d CHENGDU INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

allozyme; biogeography; east Asia; oversea dispersal; Rana limnocharis

Indexed keywords

ACID PHOSPHATASE; ALLOENZYME; AMINOTRANSFERASE; CREATINE KINASE; FRUCTOSE BISPHOSPHATASE; FUMARATE HYDRATASE; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE ISOMERASE; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE (DECARBOXYLATING); MANNOSE PHOSPHATE ISOMERASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PEPTIDASE; PHOSPHOGLUCOMUTASE; PURINE NUCLEOSIDE PHOSPHORYLASE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FROG; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NONHUMAN;

RANA LIMNOCHARIS;

EID: 0030945140     PISSN: 03051978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-1978(96)00098-1     Document Type: Article

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