Assembly of the eastern North American herpetofauna: New evidence from lizards and frogs

Biology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 388-392

  Macey, J Robert ^a   Schulte II, James A ^b   Strasburg, Jared L ^c   Brisson, Jennifer A ^d   Larson, Allan ^e   Ananjeva, Natalia B ^f   Wang, Yuezhao ^g   Parham, James F ^a   Papenfuss, Theodore J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CLARKSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^g CHENGDU INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Amphibia; Biogeography; North America; Phylogeny; Reptilia

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

BERINGIA; BIODIVERSITY; DISPERSAL; DNA; FROG; HERPETOFAUNA; LIZARD; NEW RECORD;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASIA; BIODIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FROG; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LIZARD; MACROFAUNA; MIOCENE; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAXONOMY;

ASIA; EURASIA; NORTH AMERICA;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; RANIDAE; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 33748676098     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0473     Document Type: Article

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