Toad radiation reveals into-India dispersal as a source of endemism in the Western Ghats-Sri Lanka biodiversity hotspot

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Van Bocxlaer, Ines ^a   Biju, Sd ^b   Loader, Simon P ^c   Bossuyt, Franky ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; INDIA; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES ENDEMICITY; SRI LANKA; TOAD; ANIMAL; CELL NUCLEUS; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANSONIA; ANURA; BUFONIDAE; PEDOSTIBES;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BUFONIDAE; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GEOGRAPHY; INDIA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SRI LANKA;

EID: 67650446516     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-9-131     Document Type: Article

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