High level of cryptic species diversity revealed by sympatric lineages of Southeast Asian forest frogs

Biology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 470-474

  Stuart, Bryan L ^a,b   Inger, Robert F ^a   Voris, Harold K ^a  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Biodiversity; Conservation; Speciation

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FROG; GENETIC ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYMPATRY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CELL LINEAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTIC (ERA); DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FOREST; FROG; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SYMPATRY;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; RANIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33748638817     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0505     Document Type: Article

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