Batrachology of Japan and adjacent regions - A systematic review

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 247-256

  Matsui, Masafumi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amphibia; Biodiversity; Conservation; East Asia; Japan; Systematics; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; BIODIVERSITY; EVOLUTION; FROG; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HYBRIDIZATION; JAPAN; NEWT; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES; TAXONOMY;

AMPHIBIA;

EID: 0034129922     PISSN: 03050491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0491(00)00203-0     Document Type: Review

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