Relative time scales reveal multiple origins of parallel disjunct distributions of African caecilian amphibians

Biology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 505-508

  Loader, Simon P ^a   Pisani, Davide ^b   Cotton, James A ^b   Gower, David J ^a   Day, Julia J ^a,c   Wilkinson, Mark ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Africa; Amphibians; Gymnophiona; Historical biogeography; Molecular dating

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; PHYLOGENY; TIME;

AFRICA; AMPHIBIA; ANIMALS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; PHYLOGENY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 35549004939     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0266     Document Type: Article

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