Sri Lanka: An amphibian hot spot

Science

Volumn 298, Issue 5592, 2002, Pages 379-

  Meegaskumbura, M ^a   Bossuyt, F ^a   Pethiyagoda, R ^a   Manamendra Arachchi, K ^a   Bahir, M ^a   Milinkovitch, M C ^a   Schneider, C J ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN;

AMPHIBIA; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; FERTILITY; FROG; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HATCHING; MATING; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; SHORT SURVEY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SRI LANKA;

SRI LANKA;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; REPTILIA;

EID: 0037064156     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.298.5592.379     Document Type: Short Survey

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5. Methods and materials and data set are available as supporting online material.
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9. Supported by Boston University, the NSF (DEB 9977072), the Wildlife Heritage Trust of Sri Lanka, the Fund for Scientific Research (FWO) Flanders, the National Fund for Scientific Research Belgium (FNRS), and the "Communauté Française de Belgique" (ARC 98/03-223). Research permission from the Department of Wildlife Conservation Sri Lanka and tissue loans from the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research (Singapore) are gratefully acknowledged.