Palaeoclimatic changes explain Anatolian mountain frog evolution: A test for alternating vicariance and dispersal events

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 185-199

  Veith, M ^a   Schmidtler, J F ^b   Kosuch, J ^a   Baran, I ^c   Seitz, A ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Biyoloji Bölüniü ^*  (Germany)

^c DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; Anatolia; Brown frogs; Climatic oscillation; Nested clade analysis; Phylogeography

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; ASIA, WESTERN; CLIMATE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; HAPLOTYPES; PHYLOGENY; RANIDAE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; CELLULAR ORGANISMS; MYA; PHILORIA KUNDAGUNGAN; RANA HOLTZI; RANA MACROCNEMIS MACROCNEMIS; REPTILIA;

EID: 12244311889     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294X.2003.01714.x     Document Type: Article

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