Phylogeography of the Pygmy Rain Frog (Pristimantis ridens) across the lowland wet forests of isthmian Central America

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 992-1004

  Wang, Ian J ^a   Crawford, Andrew J ^a   Bermingham, Eldredge ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Central America; Cruentus group; Dispersal; Eleutherodactyline; Golfo Dulce; Mitochondrial DNA; Phylogeography; Range expansion; SOWH test

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CENTRAL AMERICA; DNA SEQUENCE; FROGS AND TOADS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; TREE; WETLAND;

ANIMALS; ANURA; CENTRAL AMERICA; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TIME FACTORS; TREES; VARIATION (GENETICS); WETLANDS;

ANURA; BRACHYCEPHALIDAE; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS RIDENS;

EID: 44149128163     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.02.021     Document Type: Article

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