Archaeobatrachian paraphyly and Pangaean diversification of crown-group frogs

Systematic Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 111-126

  Roelants, Kim ^a   Bossuyt, Franky ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Anura; Archaeobatrachian frogs; Bayesian divergence age estimation; Pangaean breakup; Phylogenetic hypothesis testing

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR; PRIMER DNA; SODIUM CALCIUM EXCHANGE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FROGS AND TOADS; GENE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ANURA; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, RAG-1; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTORS, CHEMOKINE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SODIUM-CALCIUM EXCHANGER;

EID: 15944380768     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150590905894     Document Type: Article

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