Rapid diversification of colouration among populations of a poison frog isolated on sky peninsulas in the central cordilleras of Peru

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 417-426

  Roberts, Jennifer L ^a   Brown, Jason L ^a   Schulte, Rainer ^b   Arizabal, Wilfredo ^c   Summers, Kyle ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Instituto de Investigación de la Biología de las Cordilleras Orientales   (Peru)

^c Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco   (Peru)

Author keywords

Amazonia transition zone; Divergence; Epipedobates; Peru; Poison frogs; Sky islands; Systematics

Indexed keywords

CLADISTICS; COLOR MORPH; DIVERGENCE; FROG; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; ISOLATED POPULATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); TAXONOMY; TRANSITION ZONE;

AMAZON BASIN; CORDILLERA CENTRAL [PERU]; PERU; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANURA; DENDROBATIDAE; EPIPEDOBATES; EPIPEDOBATES BASSLERI; EPIPEDOBATES HAHNELI;

EID: 33846911997     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2006.01621.x     Document Type: Article

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