Toward understanding the distribution of Laurasian frogs: A test of Savage's biogeographical hypothesis using the genus Bombina

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 70-83

  Zheng, Yuchi ^a   Fu, Jinzhong ^b   Li, Shuqiang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Glacial refugia; Hengduan Mountains; Korean Peninsula; Molecular clock; RAG 2; Rhodopsin intron

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL NUCLEUS; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FROGS AND TOADS; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ANURA; BAYES THEOREM; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; BOMBINA; BOMBINA BOMBINA; BOMBINA MAXIMA; BOMBINA ORIENTALIS; BOMBINA PACHYPUS; BOMBINA VARIEGATA;

EID: 67349137630     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.03.026     Document Type: Article

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