A previously unrecognized radiation of ranid frogs in Southern Africa revealed by nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 674-685

  Van Der Meijden, Arie ^a   Vences, Miguel ^b   Hoegg, Simone ^a   Meyer, Axel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Africa; Amphibia; Biodiversity hotspot; Cacosterninae; Conservation priorities; Molecular phylogeny; Petropedetinae; Pyxicephalinae; Ranidae; Raninae; Tomopterninae

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; RHODOPSIN; RIBOSOME DNA; V(D)J RECOMBINATION ACTIVATING PROTEIN 2;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA SEQUENCE; FROG; GENE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, RAG-1; GEOGRAPHY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RANIDAE; RHODOPSIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

AFRANA; AMPHIBIA; ANURA; CACOSTERNUM; CONRAUA; MAMMALIA; NATALOBATRACHUS; PETROPEDETES; PHRYNOBATRACHUS; PTYCHADENA; PYXICEPHALUS; RANIDAE; STRONGYLOPUS; TOMOPTERNA;

EID: 23744509285     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2005.05.001     Document Type: Article

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