Phylogeography of the parasitic fly Batrachomyia in the Wet Tropics of north-east Australia, and susceptibility of host frog lineages in a mosaic contact zone

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 593-603

  Hoskin, Conrad J ^a,b   McCallum, Hamish ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Body condition; CO I; Diptera; Infection prevalence; Intraspecific lineages; Litoria genimaculata; Litoria myola; Parasitism; Speciation

Indexed keywords

BODY CONDITION; DIVERGENCE; FLY; FROG; GENETIC STRUCTURE; PARASITISM; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

ANURA; CHLOROPIDAE; DIPTERA; HYLIDAE; LITORIA; LITORIA GENIMACULATA; MYOBATRACHIDAE; TACHINIDAE;

EID: 35448977737     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2007.00862.x     Document Type: Article

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