Phylogenetic relationships of leopard frogs (Rana pipiens complex) from an isolated coastal mountain range in southern Sonora, Mexico

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 343-348

  Pfeiler, E ^a   Markow, T A ^b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN ALIMENTACIÓN Y DESARROLLO   (Mexico)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

12S rRNA; Control region; Cryptic species; Mexican leopard frogs; Mitochondrial DNA; Molecular systematics

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 12S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FROG; GENETICS; MEXICO; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENES, RRNA; GENETIC SPECIATION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MEXICO; MITOCHONDRIA; PHYLOGENY; RANA PIPIENS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANURA; FELIDAE; PANTHERA PARDUS; RANA BERLANDIERI; RANA MAGNAOCULARIS; RANA PIPIENS; SCURRILIRANA;

EID: 52049094792     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.06.011     Document Type: Article

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