Cenozoic biogeography and evolution in direct-developing frogs of Central America (Leptodactylidae: Eleutherodactylus) as inferred from a phylogenetic analysis of nuclear and mitochondrial genes

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 536-555

  Crawford, Andrew J ^a,c   Smith, Eric N ^b  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^c APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chortis block; Craugastor; Eleutherodactylinae; Mesoamerica; Molecular phylogenetics; Paleogeography; Proto Antilles; Systematics

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CENTRAL AMERICA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA SEQUENCE; FROGS AND TOADS; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCOGENE MYC; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; ANURA; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; CENTRAL AMERICA; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, MYC; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, TRANSFER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; LEPTODACTYLIDAE; RHODOPIS; SYRRHOPHUS; TELMATOBIINAE;

EID: 18144383554     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2005.03.006     Document Type: Article

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