Amphibian DNA shows marked genetic structure and tracks Pleistocene climate change in northeastern Brazil

Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2942-2957

  Carnaval, Ana Carolina ^a,b,c   Bates, John M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibia; Atlantic forest; Ischnocnema; Phylogeography; Pleistocene; Proceratophrys

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MYC PROTEIN;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DNA; FROG; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GEOLOGICAL SURVEY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FROGS AND TOADS; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ANURA; BRAZIL; CLIMATE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC MARKERS; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MYC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; ISCHNOCNEMA; PROCERATOPHRYS; PROCERATOPHRYS BOIEI;

EID: 36549076445     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00241.x     Document Type: Article

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