Sexual selection drives speciation in an Amazonian frog

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1608, 2007, Pages 399-406

  Boul, Kathryn E ^a   Funk, W Chris ^a,c   Darst, Catherine R ^a   Cannatella, David C ^a   Ryan, Michael J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Call variation; Gene flow; Physalaemus; Sexual selection; Speciation

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

DIVERGENCE; FROG; GENE FLOW; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC MARKER; ISOLATION EFFECT; MATING BEHAVIOR; PHYLOGENY; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL SELECTION; SIGNAL; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

AMAZONIAN FROG; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FROG; GENE FLOW; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MATE CHOICE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAZIL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FROGS AND TOADS; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MALE; PERU; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; VOCALIZATION;

ANURA; PHYSALAEMUS; PHYSALAEMUS PETERSI;

ANIMALS; ANURA; BAYES THEOREM; BRAZIL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC SPECIATION; GEOGRAPHY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; PERU; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEX FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 39049192737     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3736     Document Type: Article

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