Impact of Plio-Pleistocene arid cycling on the population history of a southwestern Australian frog

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 2782-2796

  Edwards, Danielle L ^a,b   Roberts, J Dale ^a   Keogh, J Scott ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Crinia georgiana; Mitochondrial genealogy; Myobatrachidae; Nested clade analysis; Phylogeography

Indexed keywords

DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; FOSSIL; FROGS AND TOADS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GENETICS;

ANIMALS; ANURA; AUSTRALIA; BASE SEQUENCE; CLIMATE; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; FOSSILS; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DENSITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; ANURA; CRINIA GEORGIANA; MYOBATRACHIDAE;

EID: 34347331320     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2007.03374.x     Document Type: Article

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