Comparative analysis of cutaneous evaporative water loss in frogs demonstrates correlation with ecological habits

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 847-856

  Young, Jeanne E ^a,c   Christian, Keith A ^a   Donnellan, Stephen ^b   Tracy, Christopher R ^a   Parry, David ^a  

^a CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^c NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 12S;

FROG;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENT; FROGS AND TOADS; FUNCTIONS OF THE SKIN AND ITS APPENDAGES; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THERMOREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANURA; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; DNA PRIMERS; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NORTHERN TERRITORY; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WATER LOSS, INSENSIBLE;

ANURA; BUFONIDAE; HYLIDAE; LITORIA; LITORIA RUBELLA; MICROHYLIDAE; MYOBATRACHIDAE;

EID: 24744444941     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/432152     Document Type: Article

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