Discovery of the first Asian plethodontid salamander

Nature

Volumn 435, Issue 7038, 2005, Pages 87-90

  Min, M S ^a   Yang, S Y ^b   Bonett, R M ^c   Vieites, D R ^c   Brandon, R A ^d   Wake, D B ^c  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Inha University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; DATA REDUCTION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY;

MOLECULAR DATA; MORPHOLOGICAL DATA; PROTRUSIBLE; PUTATIVE RELATIVES;

ECOLOGY;

NEW GENUS;

ARTICLE; ASIA; CLADISTICS; FOREST; FOSSIL; GENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; KOREA; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; PLETHODON; PLETHODONTID SALAMANDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAG1 GENE; SALAMANDER; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TONGUE; AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; BONE; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; LIMB; MALE; TREE;

AMPHIUMA MEANS; CAUDATA; PLETHODON; PLETHODONTIDAE;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BONE AND BONES; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; KOREA; MALE; PHYLOGENY; TREES; URODELA;

EID: 18344391071     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03474     Document Type: Article

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