Vast underestimation of Madagascar's biodiversity evidenced by an integrative amphibian inventory

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 8267-8272

  Vieites, David R ^a   Wollenberg, Katharina C ^b   Andreone, Franco ^c   Köhler, Jörn ^d   Glaw, Frank ^e   Vences, Miguel ^b  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^c MUSEO REGIONALE DI SCIENZE NATURALI   (Italy)

^d Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt   (Germany)

^e ZOOLOGISCHE STAATSSAMMLUNG MÜNCHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity estimates; New candidate species; Phylogeny DNA barcoding

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ACOUSTICS; AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLADISTICS; DNA BARCODING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MADAGASCAR; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES ENDEMICITY; SPECIES HABITAT; TAXON; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIODIVERSITY; MADAGASCAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POPULATION DENSITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA;

EID: 66249138888     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0810821106     Document Type: Article

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