Nuclear gene phylogeny of narrow-mouthed toads (Family: Microhylidae) and a discussion of competing hypotheses concerning their biogeographical origins

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1017-1030

  van der Meijden, Arie ^a,e   Vences, Miguel ^b   Hoegg, Simone ^a   Boistel, Renaud ^c   Channing, Alan ^d   Meyer, Axel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Amphibia; Asterophryinae; Cophylinae; Dyscophinae; Gastrophryninae; Hoplophryninae; Microhylidae; Mirohylinae; Molecular phylogeny; Phrynomerinae; Scaphiophryninae

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; FROGS AND TOADS; GENE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ANIMALS; ANURA; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENES, RAG-1; GEOGRAPHY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; PHYLOGENY; TIME FACTORS;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; ASTEROPHRYINAE; CALLUELLA; COPHYLINAE; DYSCOPHINAE; GASTROPHRYNE; MICROHYLIDAE; MICROHYLINAE; MYA; OTOPHRYNE; PHRYNOMERINAE; SCAPHIOPHRYNINAE;

EID: 34547910623     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2007.02.008     Document Type: Article

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