New frog family from India reveals an ancient biogeographical link with the Seychelles

Nature

Volumn 425, Issue 6959, 2003, Pages 711-714

  Biju, S D ^a,b   Bossuyt, Franky ^b  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TROPICAL BOTANIC GARDEN AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOSSILS;

DNA; ECOLOGY;

BIODIVERSITY;

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; FROG; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INDIA; MESOZOIC; MOLECULAR CLOCK; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEYCHELLES;

ANIMALS; ANURA; BAYES THEOREM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GEOGRAPHY; INDIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEYCHELLES; SKELETON; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; NEOBATRACHIA; SOOGLOSSIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0142215482     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02019     Document Type: Article

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