Novel phylogenetic relationships of the enigmatic brevicipitine and scaphiophrynine toads as revealed by sequences from the nuclear Rag-1 gene

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue SUPPL. 5, 2004, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Amphibia; Brevicipitinae; Character reversal; Homoplasy; Microhylidae; Scaphiophryninae

Indexed keywords

RAG1 PROTEIN;

EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; TOAD;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREVICIPITINE; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DNA SEQUENCE; FROG; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOMOPLASY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAPHIOPHRYNINE; TOAD;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; BREVICIPITINAE; MICROHYLIDAE; SCAPHIOPHRYNINAE;

EID: 3242878289     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2004.0196     Document Type: Article

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