Cryptic diversity and deep divergence in an upper Amazonian leaflitter frog, Eleutherodactylus ockendeni

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Elmer, Kathryn R ^a,c   Dávila, José A ^b   Lougheed, Stephen C ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS OCKENDENI; FROG; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ECUADOR; FROGS AND TOADS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANURA; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS OCKENDENI; LEPTODACTYLIDAE;

ANIMALS; ANURA; BAYES THEOREM; BIODIVERSITY; CYTOCHROMES B; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECUADOR; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC MARKERS; HAPLOTYPES; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 39749179077     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-7-247     Document Type: Article

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