Around the world in 10 million years: Biogeography of the nearly cosmopolitan true toads (Anura: Bufonidae)

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 72-83

  Pramuk, Jennifer B ^a   Robertson, Tasia ^b   Sites Jr , Jack W ^b   Noonan, Brice P ^c  

^a WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anura; Bayes method; Biogeography; Bufonidae; CXCR 4; Divergence times; DNA; mtDNA; Phylogeny; RAG 1; South America

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; DISPERSAL; EOCENE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; PALEOCENE; PHYLOGENETICS; TAXONOMY; TOAD;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MADAGASCAR; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

ANURA; BUFONIDAE;

EID: 36749078103     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2007.00348.x     Document Type: Article

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