Huge populations and old species of Costa Rican and Panamanian dirt frogs inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear gene sequences

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2525-2540

  Crawford, A J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

c myc intron; Effective population size; Eleutherodactylus; FST; Molecular clock; mtDNA; Neotropics; Phylogenetics

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; ANURA; BASE SEQUENCE; COSTA RICA; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, POPULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PANAMA; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DENSITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; LEPTODACTYLIDAE; REPTILIA;

EID: 0141724871     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294X.2003.01910.x     Document Type: Article

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