Phylogenetic relationships of African microhylid frogs inferred from DNA sequences of mitochondrial 12S and 16S rRNA genes

Organisms Diversity and Evolution

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 227-235

  Loader, Simon P ^a,b,c   Gower, David J ^a   Howell, Kim M ^d   Doggart, Nike ^e   Rödel, Mark Oliver ^f   Clarke, Barry T ^a   De Sá, Rafael O ^g   Cohen, Bernard L ^b   Wilkinson, Mark ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c Frontier   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM   (Tanzania)

^e Tanzania Forest Conservation Group   (Tanzania)

^f Biocenter Am Hubland D 97074 W ^*  (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Brevicipitinae; Eastern Arc; Hemisus; Melanobatrachinae; Microhylidae; Phrynomerinae

Indexed keywords

FROG; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHYLOGENETICS;

ANURA; BREVICEPS; BREVICIPITINAE; CALLULINA; HEMISUS; HOPLOPHRYNE; MICROHYLIDAE; PHRYNOMANTIS; PHRYNOMERINAE; PROBREVICEPS; SPELAEOPHRYNE;

EID: 3142778489     PISSN: 14396092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ode.2004.01.005     Document Type: Article

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