Post-Messinian evolutionary relationships across the Sicilian channel: Mitochondrial and nuclear markers link a new green toad from Sicily to African relatives

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Stöck, Matthias ^a,c   Sicilia, Alessandra ^b   Belfiore, Natalia M ^a   Buckley, David ^a   Lo Brutto, Sabrina ^b   Lo Valvo, Mario ^b   Arculeo, Marco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S;

AFRICA; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BUFO BOULENGERI; BUFO SICULUS; BUFO VARIABILIS; BUFO VIRIDIS; FEMALE; FOSSIL; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HANDWRITING; HAPLOTYPE; INTRON; ITALY; MALE; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NORTH AFRICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PHYLOGENY; TOAD; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS;

ANIMALIA; BUFO; BUFO DEBILIS; BUFO VIRIDIS; VERTEBRATA;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BUFONIDAE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; MALE; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SICILY;

EID: 41449089079     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-56     Document Type: Article

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