Is The Amphibian Tree of Life really fatally flawed?

Cladistics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 385-395

  Frost, Darrel R ^a   Grant, Taran ^b   Faivovich, Julian ^c   Bain, Raoul H ^a   Haas, Alexander ^d   Haddad, Celio F B ^c   De Sa, Rafael O ^e   Channing, Alan ^f   Wilkinson, Mark ^g   Donnellan, Stephen C ^h   Raxworthy, Christopher J ^a   Campbell, Jonathan A ⁱ   Blotto, Boris L ^j   Moler, Paul ^k   Drewes, Robert C ^l   Nussbaum, Ronald A ^m   Lynch, John D ⁿ   Green, David M ^o   Wheeler, Ward C ^a  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^c SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^g DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^h SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^j MUSEO ARGENTINO DE CIENCIAS NATURALES BERNARDINO RIVADAVIA   (Argentina)

^k 7818 SW CR 346 ^*  (United States)

^l CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^o MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; ANALYTICAL METHOD; CLADISTICS; FROG; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; TAXONOMY;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BRACHYCEPHALUS; BUFO; HEMIPHRACTINAE; HYPEROLIIDAE; LEPTODACTYLIDAE; LINEATRITON; METATHERIA; MICROHYLIDAE; PHRYNOBATRACHUS; PSEUDOEURYCEA; RANIDAE;

EID: 43549095014     PISSN: 07483007     EISSN: 10960031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2007.00181.x     Document Type: Review

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