Amazonian amphibian diversity is primarily derived from late Miocene Andean lineages

PLoS Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 0448-0461

  Santos, Juan C ^a   Coloma, Luis A ^b   Summers, Kyle ^c   Caldwell, Janalee P ^d   Ree, Richard ^e   Cannatella, David C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL ECUADOR   (Ecuador)

^c EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^e FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CENTRAL AMERICA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDROBATIDAE; FROGS AND TOADS; IMMIGRATION; NEOTROPICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGOCENE; SOUTH AMERICA; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXON; UPPER MIOCENE; ANIMAL; ANURA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GEOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; TROPIC CLIMATE;

AMPHIBIA; DENDROBATIDAE;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; ANURA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENETIC SPECIATION; GEOLOGY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; SOUTH AMERICA; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 66049152570     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000056     Document Type: Article

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